 What she or he is taking aim at is you are using, as you're telling these stories, you're using the grammar of the neighborhood, of the people, the community that you're writing about. Do I have that right? Well, that's what I can remember saying, and I write that in an essay, that I'm speaking the language of what I hear and heard in my voice of what it meant to be black growing up on the south side of Chicago and being two generations removed from Mississippi.