Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Kanye West Faces Discrimination for Being Straight?

Plus, words from Tamar Braxton and Rihanna.

Kanye West says he’s being discriminated against in fashion for being straight: - "I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay. In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers. Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career. I feel like it's so cliché to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that break the stereotypes make history."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)
Taylor Swift thinks she may be a bit overexposed: - "I think I should take some time off. I think people might need a break from me. I'm going to... I don't know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know."(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Rachel Dolezal is Rihanna’s hero: - “I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be Black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”(Photo: Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)Kordell Stewart denied even knowing Andrew ‘I don’t like mens’ Caldwell: - “I don’t know the guy. I’ve never heard of him. There’s no room in my personality for that lifestyle. It’s not what I believe in. I’m a heterosexual man.”(Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)

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Kanye West says he’s being discriminated against in fashion for being straight: - "I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay. In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers. Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career. I feel like it's so cliché to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that break the stereotypes make history."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)

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