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Reporter i just recently was promoted to full professor. Congratulations. [applause]. So my colleagues might be watching this morning. James baldwin, i have a very Good Relationship with him when i first encountered his name i encountered it as my dad working in the village together. Then then i met him when i was 14. I remember coming behind him and tracing collars as an adult in graduate school his words blonde with audrey and it literally saved my life. I was one of only two africanamericans in the program to my knowledge on the first africanamerican to graduate in poetry and the msa program. So it was very isolated. My friends were the ladies who cleaned the building and we would talk about those sort of things. I would remember that i was young them. Them. I was in my 20s feeling a real rage. His rage really help me it was sustained and it was intellectual. It was not messy rage it was purposeful rage. That was a real less ....
As a 17yearold, i couldnt understand. Reading this anthology i finally understood what it meant to be in a community with folks writing for and in some ways putting our community on our back and going where we are going. But i think it is much more daring in this American Literary enterprise to write to your folks. Its hard to say that in this room that is mostly white life of a young black folks out there im talking to you when i say this, it is imperative. You cant love somebody if you dont communicate to them. We will tell you to communicate over. It is a necessity to understand you come from a people who made a living two and four the deep south. [applause] i think we are out of time. This has been a great panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation for a book aboutn tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend . Ale alex stewart. He was a barre ....