♪ are we meant to be kind and give only fools are kind ♪ ♪ our gifts, it is for us to be cruel ♪ >> television wasn't open to that many black women or black people period of any race so doing the ed sullivan show, doing the perry show, doing dianna shore show, doing rick skeleton and danny k, i was kind of put into another -- i don't even know, bubble thing. people that i was privileged to be thrown in the same room with not too many of my peers had that opportunity. >> it's a thrill to be here to