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Kendrick Lamar’s much celebrated verse on the song “Control”:  - "I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York/King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both." (Photo: Neilson Barnard/WireImage for VEVO)

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Oprah Winfrey on a racist encounter she had at a department store in Switzerland:  - "It's not an indictment against the country or even that store. It was just, you know, one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag. So no apology necessary from the country, from Switzerland!"(Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Big Daddy Kane on Kendrick Lamar’s much heralded verse on “Control”:  - “Wow! Today was the first day in a loooong time I WANTED to be a part of a hip hop discussion.” (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for All Stars Helping Kids) 

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Queen Latifah on plans to discuss rumors about her sexuality on her upcoming talk show:  - “I don’t feel the need to discuss my private life on this show or any other show. There’s the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there’s the part that’s mine to keep for myself.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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Lee Daniels on how things have changed for Black America:  - “I think things have changed in a minimal way. As minimal as we have come as African-Americans… with the Trayvon Martin situation. When I was making The Butler I had no idea Trayvon was going to be murdered. At the end of the movie [at first] I was about hope. Obama’s coming in…Then I finish the movie, come out of the editing room and we’re right back where we started from.” (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Lenny Kravitz on working with director Lee Daniels:  - “He loves to tell the story. It’s all about the truth. If something doesn’t feel right… He’ll rip [the written scene] up and yell, 'Action.' And we’ll just have to go until we find that truth that he’s looking for.”   (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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Cuba Gooding Jr. on the importance of the film Lee Daniels’s The Butler:  - “There’s such a disconnect with today’s youth and the atrocities that have happened in America. [I] did an interview with a guy and he didn’t know about the sit-ins that happened until he saw this movie.” (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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David Oyelowo on the importance of a film like Lee Daniels’s The Butler:  - “What I’m encouraged by is the fact that we have this film that isn’t just a historical film, which is what some people would say it is. But that it’s a timely film that shows where we come from, and it is a film that shows how far we need to go.”  (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

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Forest Whitaker on working on films with serious social themes:  - “Throughout my life I’ve had to deal with certain degrees of prejudices as many other [people] have. I’m attracted to certain stories because I believe in social justice and… equal rights for everyone and that we are all entitled to a good life.” (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)

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Yaya Alafia on starring in Lee Daniels’s The Butler:  - "This is definitely the largest cast, the biggest names [I’ve worked with]. There are these Oscar winners and I’m just really happy.” (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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Terrence Howard on what it was like to kiss Oprah Winfrey in a film:  - “The softest piece of butterscotch I’ve ever tasted.”  (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Debbie Rowe during the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial:  - "Michael had a very low pain tolerance and his fear of pain was incredible. I think the doctors took advantage of him that way."  (Photo: Eric Neitze-Pool/Getty Images)

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Darren Young on if a gay professional wrestler could be successful: - "Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and, to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay, and I'm happy. Very happy." (Photo: Twitter via Darren Young)