Celebrity Quotes of the Week: R. Kelly Opens Up About His Transgender Child
Plus, words from Wendy Williams and Trey Songz.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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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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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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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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