Top 25 Celeb Quotes of 2015: Raven-Symoné, 50 Cent and Azealia Banks

Words from 50 Cent, President Obama, Raven-Symoné and more.

Raven-Symoné is not here for anyone with a "ghetto" name: - "Just to bring it back, can we take back 'racist' and say 'discriminatory,' because I think that's a better word. And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones that they were saying in the video," she said. "I'm not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. It's just not going to happen. I'm not going to hire you.”(Photo: Omar Reyes /Landov)
Kirk Franklin apologizes for the homophobia in the Black Church: - "I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful things that have been said about people in the church that have been talented and gifted and musical, that we've used and we've embarrassed... and all this other horrible crap that we've done. We have not treated them like people. We're talking about human beings, men and women that God has created."(Photo: Royce DeGrie/Getty Images for UP Entertainment)

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Kirk Franklin apologizes for the homophobia in the Black Church: - "I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful things that have been said about people in the church that have been talented and gifted and musical, that we've used and we've embarrassed... and all this other horrible crap that we've done. We have not treated them like people. We're talking about human beings, men and women that God has created."(Photo: Royce DeGrie/Getty Images for UP Entertainment)

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