What was your experience and what is your takeaway now that you're so far out of it?

My experience was I reshaped culture with it because I'm a Black girl that was, that cornered the market.

Um, and during the time of my...

When I emerged, I emerged on the scene when there was a, there was...

It, it was, it was, it was like a niche market.

And, um, I made sure that I capitalized off of me being voluptuous, and hood, and business savvy all wrapped in the same cloth, and then told the other big name companies, like, um, who I'm friends with now, so if y'all watch this, we're friends.

Like Groovy and Bob's T-Girls, like a lot of these T-girl places.

[laughs]

Yeah.

I am so sick of the double standards in this country and in the world.

How can you, as a woman, eat as much tuna fish as you want to and a man can't eat a wiener? (laughing)

(laughs)

Well, I was getting ready to d- indulge.

Okay, I'm so tired of the double standards with people, uh, uh, where people are, are... well, women can have the opportunity to go out there in the world and have a whole lesbian relationship, whole lesbian relationship, and a man can't go out there and have a, and indulge in all of this stuff without being called gay.

You think all this and all that and all that makes this man homosexual? No.

The same reason why you can go out there and eat a whole tuna fish sandwich-