baraka the picture was taken by a a brother named chester higgins jr and they're at the schomburg museum they're dancing at this party that is meant to dedicate this particular space in the library to the great langston hughes. and what's most interesting is, underneath them, like built into the floor, are the ashes of the great langston hughes so, they're dancing on the ashes of all of our heroes >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. >> jimmy: that is wild >> yeah, it's amazing. >> jimmy: how do you feel when you write these books and you get the response that you get, like, from a lot of your books are for young adults or children isn't it moving? is it something you ever thought you could do and you go, like, oof? >> it is you know, when i show up to schools, or if i show up to community centers or libraries, you know, one of the things that young people always say is, "man, i didn't know that a a writer could look like this. right? that you could come in sneakers, and jeans, and t-shirts, and tattoos, and long hair you could look like all of our favorite rappers, you could look like our athletes a