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J. Cole on how skin color affected his career:  - "Barack Obama would not be president if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin. I’m not saying that for sure, I’m still as talented as I am and Obama is still as smart as he is, but it’s just a sad truth…"(Photo: John Ricard/BET)

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Russell Simmons on his plans to develop a media project on the life of Harriet Tubman after his controversial satire on her:  - "The last few days I have been speaking to some of the direct descendants of Harriet Tubman. They have not only accepted my apology but we agree that we should begin immediately to develop the story of Harriet Tubman.”(Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for TWC)

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Kevin Hart on a confrontation he recently had with a Black woman:  - “I got into an argument the other day… it was a Black girl — and the girl was like, ‘You’re a piece of s--t. It’s funny you just got divorced and you’ve been with this girl for four years.’” (Photo: Paras Griffin/Landov)

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Aretha Franklin on her latest health issues and how they’ve affected her touring schedule:  - "Anytime you have cancellations you should be concerned. But all prayer is good, and keep me in your prayers until I'm 100 percent, not 85, and back on stage."(Photo: WENN)

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Macklemore on why a song like “Thrift Shop” has had such crossover success: - "Even though I’m cussing my a-- off in the song, the fact that I’m a white guy, parents feel safe. They let their six-year-olds listen to it. I mean it’s just…it’s different. And would that success have been the same if I would have been a Black dude? I think the answer is no."(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for BET)

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Stacey Dash criticizing Oprah for comparing the murder of Trayvon Martin to Emmitt Till: - "Shame on you, Oprah."(Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Wentworth Miller speaking out against Russia’s new anti-gay laws:  - “As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes [to an invite to visit]. However, as a gay man, I must decline."(Photo: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

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Spike Lee on Michael K. Williams, who he plans to cast in his next film:  - "I feel that his portrayal, his complexity and his humanity of Omar [his character on The Wire] will go down as one of the greatest characters cable TV has seen."(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Randy Jackson on Paris Jackson being confined to a mental hospital after attempting suicide: - "I don’t like that Paris is still in this facility. It's not right. She's been there much too long. She is not psychotic. There is no reason for her to be in a psychiatric hospital this long."(Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images)

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Shola Lynch on the importance of her documentary, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners:  - “We all want to talk about Trayvon Martin; we all want to talk about social movements and justice — why can’t we know about the stories where we actually win?”(Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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K. Michelle on people’s misconceptions about her because of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta:  - “Somebody’s got to bring the ratings. It falls on me; I take it. It is what it is. But I think people need to understand that I’m not always angry. I’m very calm.”(Photo: Cindy Ord/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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Evelyn Lozada on viewing season five of Basketball Wives, which deals with her former marital conflict with ex-hubby Chad Johnson:  - “I literally have bubble guts! Reliving all of this drama is stressful.”(Photo: WENN)