Hey everyone. This is Kate Snow. I recently had the chance to sit down with world famous ballet dancer and now children's book author Misty Copeland.

She has stolen the stage at the American Ballet Theater so many times, but she shared some pretty

remarkable stories of the challenges that she faced being the only African American

dancer in the company when she first started. This interview is part of my

series, The Drink with Kate Snow.

You'll find other conversations with people at the top of their game at NBC News.com slash the drink.

There's a responsibility to carry on and open doors for so many other people and

that became my purpose beyond being a good dancer that became like my biggest purpose.

All right, Misty Copeland, what's your, what's your drink?

I have a mache agreement. Misty Copeland, what's your drink?

I have a masha green tea latte.

Nice, I have a Berry tea, it's strawberry.

Ooh, that sounds really good.

What's on your teacup?

A brown ballerina, it's this amazing, amazing group.

They have an Instagram page called Brown Girls Do Ballet.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Mr.

Mr. Coghland, you are a member of the company of the American Ballet Theater,

one of the best in New York, you are one of the best ballerinas in the country.

The short question is, how did this happen?

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