certainly norman, a calvin, lenox, lloyd tom tom, jane, raymond, steve, c harles, art, and others like florence who at the time was married to jack. >> james johnson. >> i'm sorry. of course. i am sure i the us to other people out >> of course, i have a statement his malice said being a up in buffalo he did not know anything about black writers until he got to new york and joined us. i am from new orleans and a growing up in d.c. and in the south with those black professors so you'd never think of booker t. washington or anything else. of the most wonderful thing i remember i went to booker t. washington high school for the first time. and all the young people in my class loved this english teacher than i could find out why they were crazy about him. he had memorized every single poem by cinnabar -- sinbad. and then that i had the pleasure of communicating but to get in touch with the writing we just write a letter so i sent a letter since i always publish but then he jumped ship from the country and went to paris but when i got ready to sit on my but to compose it is solid reference to what he was doing with the domestic tales of paul wind back i