mahalia was his favorite gospel singer. he paused a moment, took the prepared text, pushed it aside, grabbed the podium, looked over the crowd. i said to the person standing next to me, because i read his body language, "these people out there do not know it yet, but they are about to go to church." that is when he did "i have a dream." there are very few references to that. i was riding in a car, this is coming to mind, in silicon valley. it was with carol, and she said to me, "i have this audio book, this ted kennedy book. you have been talking about this book you are working on, and in the audio book, ted kennedy says the same thing. have you read?" i went out and got the book that day and was amazed kennedy had confirmed the very thing i said. tavis: when you listen to the audio version of the tape of the speech, you can hear haley, i call her, mahalia, saying, "tell her about the -- tell them about the dream." there were others on the dais. none of them got to speak. there was sexism that even you admit was in existenc