. >> rose: was it jamie bennett? that's exactly it, he knew james bennett. i think we overlapped the times together and he wrote james and said, you should take a look at this guy. i'm sorry david is not here to see this. >> rose: i miss him. he was such an often guest on this program and he just had something unique about the ability to go right to the core, and even if everybody else was somewhere else he knew where it was. >> he did. >> rose: why is what you were doing resonating so much and so deeply with people like toni morrison? >> that, i can't answer. i don't know. what i can tell you is i think certain aspects of african-american humanity and anger is one of those aspects, are not allowed to be aired in public the same way with other people. i think there's great fear when black people talk about their anger, negative emotions and hatred of certain things. i think that makes people very, very uncomfortable. >> rose: you also think though, that -- and help me understand, and i don't want to define you i want you to define yourself -- in a sense that