anything of being worthy for all of the people who of gone before from malcolm x to rat brown, martin luther king jr.. to get the people who came to change this country. the least i can do, i am not a leader, i am just a poet. the least i can do is try to tell the truth. tavis: you are more than just a poet. poetry, foret, your years, has been pregnant with power. do you think poetry still has that capacity? >> oh my. i have been on tour with this and i just ran into the poet laureate of albuquerque, new mexico. he is a great kid, energetic, smart. i see it all the time. now i am everybody's grandmother and the kids give me their books and i get to hear them. i was at syracuse university for part of this. they had a 90-minute slam. i am just sitting there watching. we have the writers out there. they are not all going to be accessed at -- as successful. they will be ordinary, mid-level authors like me. they are bringing power and truth and they are bringing the joy of their work. i cannot imagine that we are not in good hands. i am not worried about going on hold. there was a time you