Celebrity Quotes of the Week: R. Kelly Opens Up About His Transgender Child

Plus, words from Wendy Williams and Trey Songz.

R. Kelly breaks his silence on transgender-identifying child: - “You don’t really want to open this up with saying my daughter is becoming my son … Even when you see it with your own eyes, you gotta know that there’s a back story. It’s a background, that’s why you can’t judge nobody.”(Photos from left: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Jay Kelly via Instagram)

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R. Kelly breaks his silence on transgender-identifying child: - “You don’t really want to open this up with saying my daughter is becoming my son … Even when you see it with your own eyes, you gotta know that there’s a back story. It’s a background, that’s why you can’t judge nobody.”(Photos from left: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Jay Kelly via Instagram)

Wendy Williams on meeting Michael Jackson for the first time: - “Michael invited us to his house for dinner. When we got there … we had to sign all of these pages of paper. Michael talked to us through a speaker … [He] never came out. [He] was like a robot eye. He was a strange man, but, I guess, with good intention.”(Photos from left: D Dipasupil/Getty Images, KMazur/WireImage)

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Wendy Williams on meeting Michael Jackson for the first time: - “Michael invited us to his house for dinner. When we got there … we had to sign all of these pages of paper. Michael talked to us through a speaker … [He] never came out. [He] was like a robot eye. He was a strange man, but, I guess, with good intention.”(Photos from left: D Dipasupil/Getty Images, KMazur/WireImage)

Kandi Burruss on not speaking to Mama Joyce: - “Right now, we haven’t been talking for a couple days. It’s something about my dad. It’s silly to me. It gets to be petty, so to me it’s just, OK, we just need a break.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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Kandi Burruss on not speaking to Mama Joyce: - “Right now, we haven’t been talking for a couple days. It’s something about my dad. It’s silly to me. It gets to be petty, so to me it’s just, OK, we just need a break.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

Ed Sheeran on covering VIBE magazine's "R&B's Most Wanted" issue: - “It’s definitely a surprise to be on the cover of VIBE, being British and ginger.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

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Ed Sheeran on covering VIBE magazine's "R&B's Most Wanted" issue: - “It’s definitely a surprise to be on the cover of VIBE, being British and ginger.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

"Foreign (Remix)" featuring Justin Bieber - Trey teams up with Justin Bieber to profess their infatuation with women from all over the world, singing, "Just got back from Africa, I swear I saw about 50 thousand queens/Touched down in Paris, had her waiting, had her waiting for me."(Photos from left: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Clear Channel, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Trey Songz defends Justin Bieber's statements on joining the KKK and using the "N-word": - “I think the fact that he’s owned up to it and not ran away from it is something we need to very much encourage because you know people do make mistakes and people do have blemishes.”(Photos from left: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Clear Channel, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Zendaya on being labeled "not Black enough" to portray Aaliyah in new biopic: - “Half Black is just enough. It doesn’t matter what color you are. It’s about how to portray the character. For those that don’t know, Angela Bassett and Tina Turner, they look nothing alike but she was that character so I think that’s what it’s all about.”(Photo: Splash News/RB360)

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Zendaya on being labeled "not Black enough" to portray Aaliyah in new biopic: - “Half Black is just enough. It doesn’t matter what color you are. It’s about how to portray the character. For those that don’t know, Angela Bassett and Tina Turner, they look nothing alike but she was that character so I think that’s what it’s all about.”(Photo: Splash News/RB360)

Meagan Good on always feeling judged: - “He [her husband] sees all the positive things in me that I felt like a lot of other people didn’t see — I always felt very judged. I always felt like people were coming for me. He was the first person, outside of my sister or mother, who said, ‘I see you. I see who you really are.’”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)

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Meagan Good on always feeling judged: - “He [her husband] sees all the positive things in me that I felt like a lot of other people didn’t see — I always felt very judged. I always felt like people were coming for me. He was the first person, outside of my sister or mother, who said, ‘I see you. I see who you really are.’”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)

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Sebastian Mikael on troubled childhood: - “As a kid, I had a lot of problems at school. I got kicked out of two different schools and I moved around a lot and had a lot of different issues and it boiled from growing up in Sweden that has a lot of racial tensions, and me being half white, half Black, I experienced racism from both ends."(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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Sebastian Mikael on troubled childhood: - “As a kid, I had a lot of problems at school. I got kicked out of two different schools and I moved around a lot and had a lot of different issues and it boiled from growing up in Sweden that has a lot of racial tensions, and me being half white, half Black, I experienced racism from both ends."(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

Jhené Aiko on not rushing her album: - “I will never rush anything just to say I’m 28 with seven albums. One or a few of those albums will be crap.”(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Jhené Aiko on not rushing her album: - “I will never rush anything just to say I’m 28 with seven albums. One or a few of those albums will be crap.”(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for Coachella)

Gary Owen on not being on the cover of Essence with the other men of the Think Like a Man Too cast: - “I didn’t even think nothing of it, until it got brought to my attention. It’s very rare that all of us guys have been included in everything, like, whether it’s an interview or magazines.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)

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Gary Owen on not being on the cover of Essence with the other men of the Think Like a Man Too cast: - “I didn’t even think nothing of it, until it got brought to my attention. It’s very rare that all of us guys have been included in everything, like, whether it’s an interview or magazines.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)

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Mary Wilson: March 6 - The founding member of Motown sensation the Supremes turns 69.  (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Mary Wilson on reuniting with the other members of the Supremes: - “People always ask if we will ever reunite. But that’s very difficult because Florence passed away [in 1976]. And, unfortunately, Cindy is having a few illness problems. And I think Diane [Ross’s birth name] is into her own stardom. She is a diva, a superstar. Sometimes it’s hard to go back.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Kenan Thompson on his wife having a baby girl, and being a clueless father: - “I’m about to be a daddy! That’s right! Papa Kenan … I am terrified. I don’t know what to do with babies."(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Kenan Thompson on his wife having a baby girl, and being a clueless father: - “I’m about to be a daddy! That’s right! Papa Kenan … I am terrified. I don’t know what to do with babies."(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)