We Create Our Identities Through the Metaphors We Consume

McArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom is unpacking the ways we speak about success

Everyone in this country was not “born equal.” We do not all have equal opportunity as is lauded in our society or experience equal opposition on our journeys through life.

But, as newly named McArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom writes, where you end up can be a pretty far leap from where you may have started.