and without sonia sanchez specifically. they credit you with being a voice that has, in a way, given them their voice. you know, how do you respond to that? >> because it's the continuity. you know, we have to understand that, quite often, people come on the scene and they don't say, "i'm here because of the people who came before." i mean, we learned that we were indeed writers because there before, sister margaret walker, brother sterling brown, brother dudley randall, you know, brother langston hughes. you know, we were there because there was a harlem renaissance at some particular point, and so when you understand that, you understand you're just part of a continuum, and when, finally, when i stop saying to my children, "oh, you keep playing that hip-hop, that rap. it's so loud. it's so fast." and one of my children turned around and said, "but, mom, you speak so fast that sometimes we had trouble understanding you." and i went, "oops. okay." and i leaned back, and we had a session on music one sunday morning, where i