Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Dame Dash Laughs at Jay Z and Solange Fight
Plus quotes from D'Angelo and Laverne Cox.
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Dame Dash on the Jay Z/Solange elevator fight tape: - "I laughed. That s*** was funny. I wouldn’t have handled it like that. I just thought it was funny because Jay is the kind of guy, you never see him moving.” (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
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D’Angelo on being labeled a “neo-soul” artist: - “I don't want to disassociate, and I respect it for what it is, but any time you put a name on something, you put it in a box. I never claimed I do neo-soul. When I first came out, I said, I do Black music.” (Photo: Red Bull Music Academy)
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. on what lead to his fight with T.I.: - “I’m eating a Fat Burger and next thing you know, he walk in talking about we need to talk again. I told you him, ‘You need to get the f*** out my face. That’s what you better do.’” (Photos from left: Prince Williams/FilmMagic, Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Robert DeNiro on his father being gay: - “I wish we had spoken about it much more — my mother didn’t want to talk about things in general, and you’re not interested when you’re a certain age.” (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Spike TV)
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Game on what was the hardest item he had to sell off at a special garage sale he held at his house: - “My Jordan collection. I wasn’t trying to part with nothing. But I had to do it for the shoe community.” (Photo: Greg Tidwell,PacificCoastNews)
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Stephen A. Smith to Tiny for publicly commenting about troubles in her marriage to T.I.: - “Why would the wife go on Twitter and dime out her husband like that? That doesn’t make sense to me. If it were true, that is your husband and he is supposed to take precedent over everybody else. Even if he’s wrong, that’s something that you tell him privately.“ (Photo: Jennifer Graylock/Getty Images for EPIX)
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Kandi Burruss on hubby Todd handling criticism from Mama Joyce: - “I don’t know if I would have been able to handle it quite as well as he has. I have to commend him for being so patient.” (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)
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Michael Ealy on which Think Like a Man Too cast member he is closest to: - “I would say probably Kev. We've actually gotten to work on other stuff together. Kev, despite becoming a huge, huge star, it's just the same with us.” (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Laverne Cox on how she always knew she was a girl: - "My third grade teacher called my mom and said, ‘Your son is going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress.’ Up until that point I just thought that I was a girl and that there was no difference between girls and boys." (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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Kelly Price on what type of music she really loves to work on: - "I love hip hop. That's my kind of music because, for me, it still feels soulful, rhythmic and bluesy. It's really steeped in the roots of R&B." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Shaniqua Tompkins's response to 50 Cent's comment that she get a job: "I had a deal with a reality show, the show was canceled but everybody got paid their full contract but me. So you saying, 'Get a job,' I had one!" - (Photos from Left: Lisa Wagner / Splash News, Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)