Top 25 Celebrity Quotes of 2014: Bobby Shmurda, Azealia Banks and Raven-Symoné

Plus, words from DJ Mister Cee, Solange and Aretha Franklin.

Never a Dull Moment - Many celebrities are known to be brashly outspoken and, this year, it was no different. From Bobby Smurda's lawyer commenting on hip hop and the judicial system, Azealia Banks's unapologetic words on the smudging of Black culture and Raven-Symoné's controversial "no labels" statement, this year was anything but dull, thanks to our favorite stars.— By Moriba Cummings(Photos from Left: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, PBI/WENN.com, Nikki Nelson/WENN.com)
Solange on the infamous elevator incident: - “What’s important is that my family and I are all good. What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that.”(Photo: Splash News)
Azealia Banks on cultural appropriation in hip hop and Iggy Azalea's skills: - “That Iggy Azalea s*** isn’t better than any f****** Black girl that’s rapping today… I feel like, in this country, whenever it comes to our things, like Black issues or Black politics or Black music or whatever, there’s always this undercurrent of kinda like ‘F*** you.' There’s always a ‘F*** y’all n*****. Y’all don’t really own s***. Y’all don’t have s***.'”(Photo: Lionel Urman/Splash News)Diddy blasts Drake on-stage for stealing "0-100": - “Somebody get this s*** on tape. I’ma play this next beat. I gave this s*** to this n****, this n***a stole this s*** from me. But at the end of the day, this s*** is hard. Play that s***!"(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Never a Dull Moment - Many celebrities are known to be brashly outspoken and, this year, it was no different. From Bobby Smurda's lawyer commenting on hip hop and the judicial system, Azealia Banks's unapologetic words on the smudging of Black culture and Raven-Symoné's controversial "no labels" statement, this year was anything but dull, thanks to our favorite stars.— By Moriba Cummings(Photos from Left: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, PBI/WENN.com, Nikki Nelson/WENN.com)

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