because he Whoopi Goldberg told me the salary she makes from the zoo and that hurt my feelings that you’ve been there for ten years and you accept them paying you back and you telling me don’t worry about the little one coming up god damned if I ain’t gotta be worried about you too because you accept that salary it makes it hard what I think is also interesting you mentioning Oprah they seem like definitely a disappointment to see someone that you looked up to the character didn’t match your character of how you what you felt was also important

and I think about what we go burn you being a black woman stand-up comedian and you going through her show and from what I kind of gathered she brought up the whole Netflix thing and you guys talked about black being blackballed on the view and backstage she tells you something in the regards of don’t worry about the other ones coming behind you worry about yourself how do you feel initially seeing someone a I’m assuming you looked up to pretty much tell you that they didn’t care about you and in a sense see this the part that’s hard for

me because there was some woman that gave a damn about me before I got here and that was Hattie McDaniels that was perfect that was out of B Wells there was Louise beavers that was those black women saying I’m gonna take these ass whippings so hopefully you won’t have to take them I’m gonna take them calling me to my face I’ll take them calling me a black I’ll take them telling me you better not step over this line I’ll take all of that so hopefully you won’t have to Patti LaBelle hugs me in a way baby that that

hug came from a place of love that’s unpadded in the community and when I first met that woman she held onto me so tight and I was one of the last people in line of hundreds of people that stood in line at a concert and she hugged me like I was the first so I hold on to those memories to make me say let me make sure then when the little girl holds on to me she feels the same way I felt when Patti LaBelle he’ll doing to me at a concert after hugging people for two hours you hit me two hours and she hugged me like I was the first person in line

so when ain’t no cameras rolling Patti LaBelle is Patti LaBelle see when I first met Patti LaBelle I was going through my second divorce right and I found out what I had to pay so I’m backstage baby drama drama going through it that woman pulled me to the side said come here little girl what’s wrong with you don’t you ever let them see you fall apart the one thing that man can’t take from you is your talent give them that money right now give it to him and you go out on that stage and you show your ass and you give the people in the

backseat a hell of a show cuz they the ones that really didn’t have no money that’s coming to see you see that’s the kind I got that’s what I got filled with I got filled with Valerie Simpson and Ashlee and Simpson invited me up to their home and saying hey baby let me tell you what it’s supposed to be when one get it everybody get it that’s the error we came from so I got those women filling me I got Susan Taylor from essence saying listen don’t [ __ ] it when she walked away essence walked away but when I got those

women that pulling me up saying hey little sister let me talk to you for a minute so when I get Whoopi Goldberg on the flips and them little ones coming behind you you better give a damn about you that crushed me that day in her dressing room because see Whoopi Goldberg told me the salary she makes from the zoo and that hurt my feelings that you’ve been there for ten years and you accept them paying you back and you telling me don’t worry about the little one coming up god damned if I ain’t gotta be worried about you too because

you accept that salary it makes it hard for me and how hard do you think it’s gonna make for the runway to here yet because you accept that salary so does standing my sisters dressing room and she say to me you can’t be worried about that one coming up well what if moms Mabley didn’t worry about you what if those ones didn’t make it better for us so I try not to take it personal but it’s personal because these are the women I look to so I don’t want the little girl who’s not here yet a little girl right down the street at the juice

bar that says oh my goodness that’s Monique I don’t want her to walk away and say daddy who I thought she was