Celebrity Quotes of the Week: D. Smith Checks Scrappy and Waka Flocka's Ignorance About the Transgender Community

Plus, words from Michael Jai White, Lil' Kim and more.

Love & Hip Hop's D. Smith brushes off the transphobic hate from Scrappy and Waka Flocka Flame: - "Their opinions do not hurt my feelings. My problem is that there are little elementary school girls who have friends or peers that may hear [the criticism] and go over the edge, commit suicide or get beat up that day... I want [Scrappy and Waka Flocka Flame] to be a little more conscious with their words because they do have a platform."(Photos from left: VH1)

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Love & Hip Hop's D. Smith brushes off the transphobic hate from Scrappy and Waka Flocka Flame: - "Their opinions do not hurt my feelings. My problem is that there are little elementary school girls who have friends or peers that may hear [the criticism] and go over the edge, commit suicide or get beat up that day... I want [Scrappy and Waka Flocka Flame] to be a little more conscious with their words because they do have a platform."(Photos from left: VH1)

Lamar Odom speaks out on those rumors that he’s hitting the bottle again: - "I mean, it gets tough, especially if so much gets speculated... Only a few people know the truth, and I just keep that close to my heart.”(Photo: Jerry Perez, PacificCoastNews)

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Lamar Odom speaks out on those rumors that he’s hitting the bottle again: - "I mean, it gets tough, especially if so much gets speculated... Only a few people know the truth, and I just keep that close to my heart.”(Photo: Jerry Perez, PacificCoastNews)

Michael Jai White really doesn’t want an Oscar: - "I'll tell you what, the majority who's gotten an Oscar, it's signified the end of their career. Angela Bassett got nominated for What's Love Got to Do With It. What has she done bigger than that since then? Cuba Gooding Jr., Oscar winner. What has he done since then?... Jennifer Hudson, what? Terrence Howard, what was the next movie that it launched him into? For the love of God, please do not nominate me for an Oscar!”(Photo: Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Ford Neighborhood Awards)

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Michael Jai White really doesn’t want an Oscar: - "I'll tell you what, the majority who's gotten an Oscar, it's signified the end of their career. Angela Bassett got nominated for What's Love Got to Do With It. What has she done bigger than that since then? Cuba Gooding Jr., Oscar winner. What has he done since then?... Jennifer Hudson, what? Terrence Howard, what was the next movie that it launched him into? For the love of God, please do not nominate me for an Oscar!”(Photo: Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Ford Neighborhood Awards)

Here’s the hilarious burn Anthony Anderson threw at Common: - "The album cover when you were, like, the ringmaster of the circus with the bald head, did they really give you s**t about that one?… They were like, 'Man, Erykah Badu done changed you, Common!’"(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards)

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Here’s the hilarious burn Anthony Anderson threw at Common: - "The album cover when you were, like, the ringmaster of the circus with the bald head, did they really give you s**t about that one?… They were like, 'Man, Erykah Badu done changed you, Common!’"(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards)

Rachel Dolezal is writing a book that may upset a lot of people: - "A lot of people have reached out to me... I've heard a lot of stories from people about their lives being caught in the boundaries of race. Because race is such a contentious issue, it's really important to think through a lot of those topics and questions people have. Why do we still want to go back to the world of separate races?”(Photo: 247PAPS.TV / Splash News)

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Rachel Dolezal is writing a book that may upset a lot of people: - "A lot of people have reached out to me... I've heard a lot of stories from people about their lives being caught in the boundaries of race. Because race is such a contentious issue, it's really important to think through a lot of those topics and questions people have. Why do we still want to go back to the world of separate races?”(Photo: 247PAPS.TV / Splash News)

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Don’t ask Phylicia Rashad about Bill Cosby’s sexual assault allegations: - "This is in litigation now, right? Then I’m not commenting on anything. Let that play itself out.”(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

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Don’t ask Phylicia Rashad about Bill Cosby’s sexual assault allegations: - "This is in litigation now, right? Then I’m not commenting on anything. Let that play itself out.”(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Iggy Azalea says Nick Young will lose something pretty valuable if he ever cheats again: - "Like, you'll have half a penis. I already said one more video, just one more thing and you will lose a quarter of your meat.”(Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Iggy Azalea says Nick Young will lose something pretty valuable if he ever cheats again: - "Like, you'll have half a penis. I already said one more video, just one more thing and you will lose a quarter of your meat.”(Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Farrah Abraham is still talking about Nicki Minaj: - "That's been over with, but I have to say that I'm really disappointed in a woman acting like that. My God, there's just been so many disappointments, not just with me but other public figures, other artists, and it's just f*****g shady to do that s**t.”(Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV)

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Farrah Abraham is still talking about Nicki Minaj: - "That's been over with, but I have to say that I'm really disappointed in a woman acting like that. My God, there's just been so many disappointments, not just with me but other public figures, other artists, and it's just f*****g shady to do that s**t.”(Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV)

President Obama has this to say about the future generation of America: - "If we believe in their futures, they will too.”(Photo: Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

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President Obama has this to say about the future generation of America: - "If we believe in their futures, they will too.”(Photo: Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

Lil’ Kim wants you to know she is ahead of her time: - “Everyone needs to go back and remember my older music. I even used auto-tune back when no one even was touching it — I used it on The Notorious K.I.M., on a song called ‘I’m Human.’”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Lil’ Kim wants you to know she is ahead of her time: - “Everyone needs to go back and remember my older music. I even used auto-tune back when no one even was touching it — I used it on The Notorious K.I.M., on a song called ‘I’m Human.’”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Fat Joe says he is team Nas all the way: - “When Nas caught beef with Jay Z, they threw the battery in my back. Like, ‘We got beef with this man,’ and I’m all muscle. I’m like, ‘alright.’ I’m moving a certain way and the moral to the story is that there was bad blood between Roc-A-Fella and Terror Squad for a long time and the next thing I know I seen Nas with Jay Z and there was peace.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Fat Joe says he is team Nas all the way: - “When Nas caught beef with Jay Z, they threw the battery in my back. Like, ‘We got beef with this man,’ and I’m all muscle. I’m like, ‘alright.’ I’m moving a certain way and the moral to the story is that there was bad blood between Roc-A-Fella and Terror Squad for a long time and the next thing I know I seen Nas with Jay Z and there was peace.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Snoop Dogg is not here for Arnold Schwarzenegger cutting a convicted killer’s sentence but not Tookie Williams's: - “Arnold Schwarzenegger is a straight b***h, punk m*****f*****... I can’t stand you. You one m*****f***ing racist piece of sh*t. F**k you, Arnold Schwarzenegger.”(Photo: Brian Ach/Getty Images for AOL)

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Snoop Dogg is not here for Arnold Schwarzenegger cutting a convicted killer’s sentence but not Tookie Williams's: - “Arnold Schwarzenegger is a straight b***h, punk m*****f*****... I can’t stand you. You one m*****f***ing racist piece of sh*t. F**k you, Arnold Schwarzenegger.”(Photo: Brian Ach/Getty Images for AOL)