i have so many friends that i can talk to, one of your great poitier andneidney his wife.onfessions," she read the book for the audio, his daughter. she does all the voices. she is a traffic actress and completely beautiful. hard not to enjoy it when you and sidney are friends. i will put this out there. you do not know where books are going to go. how does it change things when gino dies? >> you'll have to read to find out. is heading in that direction. i know the fans are going to be furious if anything happens to him because they love him. he is gino the ram. it will be interesting if i get to that point in the story. tavis: >> if that were to happen because that is where the story ends up taking you. you do not know where the story is going to go. i get that. how scary is it for a writer to the looking at some and where you know the character is dancing with mortality. >> it is very scary. you know that the people who read you and because -- i have so many young fans who have started reading the books. and they are going through the seven or eight books treat i do not

i have learned the lesson of agincourt, of poitiers and crecy. i know how many lives any move of mine will cost, and if the move is worth the cost, i make it and pay the cost. but joan never counts the cost at all. she goes ahead and trusts to god. she thinks she has god in her pocket. up to now she has had the numbers on her side, and she has won. but i know joan, and i see that one day she will go ahead when she has only 10 men to do the work of a hundred. then she will find that god is on the side of the big battalions. she will be taken by the enemy and the lucky man that makes the capture will receive 16,000 pounds from the earl of warwick 16,000 pounds! for me? there cannot be so much money in the world. now tell me which of us will make a move to save her once the english have got her, i speak first for the army. the day that she is dragged from her horse by a goddamn or a burgundian and she is not struck dead, the day that she is locked in a dungeon and the bars and bolts do not fly open at the touch of st. peter's angel, the day when the

won the academy award and the next year was her job to present it to the next one or who was sidney poitier. it is tradition, it was tradition back then for the women giving the oscar to the men with a little peck on the cheek. that is what you do. spencer tracy. it was the first time a white woman had kissed a black guy at the oscars. here's the funny part. she got hate now but the hate mail from the south was just condescending. it was like how could you do that? don't you know they are not like us wax but the hate mail from the north was death threats. the hate mail from the north was violent and angry. these guys even though they weren't from the south, there was a tremendous amount of racism from the north and this is what i try to talk about in "the harlem hellfighters." this is why there was such a horrific backlash against these guys because it was all well and good to be an abolitionist in the north where there were no black people but suddenly when millions of them are coming in and moving into neighborhoods and work in the stockers in chicago on the factors of new york suddenly w

and those are the things that inspired me to be an artist you know coming up seeing you know sidney poitier in the relevance of the things that he did or whole spike lee renaissance you know songs in high school that like the music and hip hop culture from them was really about empowering the people in inspiring the people in so you know i want to be able to continue that you first the writer yeah yeah well if you want to call it that you know i was a poet you know and we were yeah i was a young you know young kid wrote a lot rollout of poetry in brooklyn and brooklyn a poet and. good road of any kind i'll give you shaken happy times get beat up. well they get a lot you know you know when i was growing up it was really about that the village raising the child in and so we were just kids who you know we would kids of the activists so to say and so we were about empowering the community the board of the creative coalition you touched on that the less time you would assume that our political thank you note is that creative coalition is a nonprofit that you know we advocate sixty per public fun