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Usher on having a shot at an Academy Award for his role in Hands of Stone: - "I've seen Oscar winners come out of left field." (Photo: Awais, PacificCoastNews.com)

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Shaunie O’Neal on the current state of Basketball Wives:  - "I think the level of where the show is going is out of control. Sometimes I just want to exit stage left immediately." (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Robin Roberts announcing she’s been diagnosed with a bone marrow disease:  - “My doctors tell me I’m going to beat this... They say I’m younger and fitter than most people who confront this disease and will be cured.”(Photo: Courtesy ABC)

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Paris Jackson on being bullied by schoolmates:  - “Some people try to cyber bully me. They try to get to me with words but that doesn’t really work.”(Photo: Courtesy Oprah Winfrey Network)

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Solange on talking about her hair in the media: - “Look, all I’m saying is my hair is not very important to me… So I don’t encourage it to be important to you... I’m very emotional today, so I’m letting the momentum of that help me to express the fact that… I don’t want to talk about no damn hair… No mo.”(Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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Lauryn Hill on why she failed to tell the government how much she’s earned: - "For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media-protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda." (Photo: Courtesy Jen Diaz/Hot 97)

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Will Smith on why he turned down the title role in Django Unchained: - "I came really close. It was one of the most amazing screenplays I had ever, ever seen. I was in the middle of Men In Black 3 and [Tarantino] was ready to go, and I just couldn’t sit with him and get through the issues, so I didn’t want to hold him up. That thing’s going to be ridiculous. It is a genius screenplay." (Photo: Enrique RC, PacificCoastNews.com)

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Beyoncé explaining her daughter’s name through quoting Rebecca Solnit's poem Field Guide to Getting Lost:  - "The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue." (Photo: DLM Press, PacificCoastNews.com)

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50 Cent on his grandmother: - “I’m not even allowed to curse around her.” (Photo: Courtesy Oprah Winfrey Network)

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Baby on what comes after you get rich:  - “When money comes the bulls*** comes. But to me, it’s no more than what I already been through. My life’s been up and down from day one, so the little negative s*** that comes with it, it bounces off.”(photo: John Ricard / BET)

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Chrissy Lampkin on a title for her new reality show with Jim Jones:  - “I really don’t know [the title yet]. I really wanted Me and Mrs. Jones but Kelis and Nas already used that.” (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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Jamie Hector remembering his character, Marlo Stansfield, on the 10th anniversary of The Wire: - "At any given moment with every script we received it could have been the last day. It’s The Wire — no man is safe. But when [the finale] was written, the way it was written, with Marlo coming out on top, it was like, oh, wow. This is how it happens sometimes… Reality on television." (Photo: Robert Laberge/Getty Images)