dr. maya angelou and oprah and iyanla, those women who are well-spoken and spiritual and strong and femininet the same time, they never betray us. so i aspire to be that person, so it's good for me also to see that my reputation cleared it all up without me having to say a word. just my presence. tavis: so how much, rich is this content for the next project? [laughter] >> there's so many good things. tavis: that's what i love about artists, man. i was like, i don't know how india's processing this, but i guarantee you there's going to be a record about this. [laughter] there's going to be something coming. >> there's one on there that, of course, i wrote before all this happened. tavis: exactly. >> it's called "i am light." it talks about the light, your spiritual light, and how it shows on the outside. that song means a lot to me. tavis: since we're into it now, tell me about -- i love the title, as i said earlier, "songversation." >> "songversation." tavis: yeah. how'd that come to be? >> well technically i thought about it for a really long time. it was like months and months. i was like,

dr. king and fought so long to make his dream a reality. today was emotional. it was for maya angelou, poet, civil rights activist. i spoke to her earlier. for you on this day what does dr. king's dream mean today? what do you think is the march of significance today? >> i think that at once i'm delighted that he had the dream. i'm delighted if he awakened right now he could also say some of my dream has come to pass and see the african-american family in the white house. a man and a woman and their children and a grandmother. a black grandmother in the white house. my goodness. at the same time, i think he would be disappointed to hear we have not come any farther. so my hope is that the dream -- we can awaken from the dream and find that some of the elements of the dream have come to pass. >> one of the main messages of the organizers of the march 50 years ago was economic equality. that often gets lost in the retelling of this. randolph said that freedom means precious little to those who can't afford to use them. i just read that economic disparities between african-americans and

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dr. king stood a half century ago and speaks of courage. we will speak to maya angelou who is and was

dr. king stood 50 years ago and speaks to the courage that carried them to washington. we'll speak to maya angelouof that struggle. she joins me for an emotional and inspiring conversation.