he said, that's all right, i don't eat colored people, bring me a whole fried chicken. our next guest, henry lewis gates junior, he wrote the forward, in the guest spot, with reesepowers. i flip through this book and see so much of black history reflected and this has to mention your series on pbs, the african-american, many rivers to cross airs tonight on pbs, a full flavor of black history we get out of aretha powers' book. when we look at the flow of black history, i get the sense we had a long hard road but we have this wealth that is in resilience. >> absolutely, tour'e, you forgot the most important person in the book, that's you. >> stop, stop. >> i'm shocked that wasn't in the lead to be honest.