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

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

Setting It Off - Some celebrities are known for speaking their minds, but this year there it seems our eyebrows were permanently raised. From Raven-Symoné likening the First Lady to an animal to Azealia Banks wanting to leave the United States, this year's celeb comments were anything but dry.(Photos from left: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Trevor Project, Noam Galai/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald, John Sciulli/Getty Images for Nasty Gal)

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Setting It Off - Some celebrities are known for speaking their minds, but this year there it seems our eyebrows were permanently raised. From Raven-Symoné likening the First Lady to an animal to Azealia Banks wanting to leave the United States, this year's celeb comments were anything but dry.(Photos from left: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Trevor Project, Noam Galai/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald, John Sciulli/Getty Images for Nasty Gal)

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Naya Rivera's sorry for saying that white people shower more frequently than "ethnics": - “Yesterday we were talking about a study that says you're supposed to shower once or twice every three days. I had an opinion on it that was supposed to be a joke. Apparently it didn't go over so well... I apologize if anyone was offended. However, I'm very excited that it sparked a big conversation about how many times you should shower.”(Photo: Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

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Naya Rivera's sorry for saying that white people shower more frequently than "ethnics": - “Yesterday we were talking about a study that says you're supposed to shower once or twice every three days. I had an opinion on it that was supposed to be a joke. Apparently it didn't go over so well... I apologize if anyone was offended. However, I'm very excited that it sparked a big conversation about how many times you should shower.”(Photo: Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

Here's why Kevin Hart would never play a gay role: - "I can’t. Not because I have any ill will or disrespect. It's because I don't think I'm really going to dive into that role 100 percent because of insecurities about myself trying to play that part. Does that make sense?”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for CinemaCon)

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Here's why Kevin Hart would never play a gay role: - "I can’t. Not because I have any ill will or disrespect. It's because I don't think I'm really going to dive into that role 100 percent because of insecurities about myself trying to play that part. Does that make sense?”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for CinemaCon)

Dawn Richard explans why she sucker punched Aubrey O'Day: -  “They told me we had the studio the next day, and they went in the day before. I walked in on them doing it, and I tried to confront them… I blacked out… I couldn’t believe it. It’s my fault, their fault, everybody.”(Photos from left: Jonathan Leibson, Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Dawn Richard explans why she sucker punched Aubrey O'Day: - “They told me we had the studio the next day, and they went in the day before. I walked in on them doing it, and I tried to confront them… I blacked out… I couldn’t believe it. It’s my fault, their fault, everybody.”(Photos from left: Jonathan Leibson, Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

President Obama is chillin': - “I have no more campaigns to run… I know, 'cause I won both of them.”(Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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President Obama is chillin': - “I have no more campaigns to run… I know, 'cause I won both of them.”(Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Rashida Jones isn't "tanned." She's Black: - “I mean, you know, I’m ethnic.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Rashida Jones isn't "tanned." She's Black: - “I mean, you know, I’m ethnic.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Justin Bieber's sorry for being a jerk for all these years: - "I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half. I'm not who I was pretending to be.”(Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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Justin Bieber's sorry for being a jerk for all these years: - "I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half. I'm not who I was pretending to be.”(Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

David Oyelowo is sick of Black people being celebrated only for 'subservient' roles: - “Historically, and this is truly my feeling, generally speaking we as Black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings, or being in the center or our own narrative driving it forward.”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for TNT LA)

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David Oyelowo is sick of Black people being celebrated only for 'subservient' roles: - “Historically, and this is truly my feeling, generally speaking we as Black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings, or being in the center or our own narrative driving it forward.”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for TNT LA)

Taye Diggs doesn't want his biracial son to be labeled: - "When you [call biracial kids Black], you risk disrespecting that one half of who you are and that's my fear. I don't want my son to be in a situation where he calls himself Black and everyone thinks he has a Black mom and a Black dad, and then they see a white mother, they wonder, 'Oh, what's going on?’"(Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)

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Taye Diggs doesn't want his biracial son to be labeled: - "When you [call biracial kids Black], you risk disrespecting that one half of who you are and that's my fear. I don't want my son to be in a situation where he calls himself Black and everyone thinks he has a Black mom and a Black dad, and then they see a white mother, they wonder, 'Oh, what's going on?’"(Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)

Zendaya's response to Giuliana Rancic's insensitive comments about her hair was perfect: - “There is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful. Someone said something about my hair at the Oscars that left me in awe… To say that an 18-year-old young women with locs must smell of patchouli oil or 'weed' is not only a large stereotype but outrageously offensive.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Zendaya's response to Giuliana Rancic's insensitive comments about her hair was perfect: - “There is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful. Someone said something about my hair at the Oscars that left me in awe… To say that an 18-year-old young women with locs must smell of patchouli oil or 'weed' is not only a large stereotype but outrageously offensive.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Lee Daniels explains why Mo'Nique was blackballed from Hollywood: - “She was making unreasonable demands, and she wasn’t thinking — this was when reverse racism was happening, I think. You have to thank the producers of the film, you have to thank the studio, and she didn’t understand that. I love her, I’ve spoken to her. She’s brilliant, and I love working with brilliant people.”(Photo from left: Mike Coppola/Getty Images, WENN)

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Lee Daniels explains why Mo'Nique was blackballed from Hollywood: - “She was making unreasonable demands, and she wasn’t thinking — this was when reverse racism was happening, I think. You have to thank the producers of the film, you have to thank the studio, and she didn’t understand that. I love her, I’ve spoken to her. She’s brilliant, and I love working with brilliant people.”(Photo from left: Mike Coppola/Getty Images, WENN)

Jussie Smollett came out to Ellen Degeneres: - "Let's not read into it in the wrong way when I say that I don't talk about my personal life. It is in no way to hide or deny who God made me. You know? My mama knows. My mama likes me a lot... But honestly, we're human and we love and we do all that good stuff.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Jussie Smollett came out to Ellen Degeneres: - "Let's not read into it in the wrong way when I say that I don't talk about my personal life. It is in no way to hide or deny who God made me. You know? My mama knows. My mama likes me a lot... But honestly, we're human and we love and we do all that good stuff.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Azealia Banks is sick of the United States: - "I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Azealia Banks is sick of the United States: - "I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Raven-Symoné thinks First Lady Michelle Obama looks like what?: - "I do know that a lot of people I know have animal traits. I think Michelle Obama looks like a little cat.”(Photos from left: Neilson Barnard, Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

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Raven-Symoné thinks First Lady Michelle Obama looks like what?: - "I do know that a lot of people I know have animal traits. I think Michelle Obama looks like a little cat.”(Photos from left: Neilson Barnard, Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

According to Sevyn Streeter, you should never refuse your partner sex: - “I think that when you commit to somebody and take them off the market, I think that it is your job, as a woman or a man, to — I don’t think you should ever say, ‘no’… don’t you ever say ‘no.’”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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According to Sevyn Streeter, you should never refuse your partner sex: - “I think that when you commit to somebody and take them off the market, I think that it is your job, as a woman or a man, to — I don’t think you should ever say, ‘no’… don’t you ever say ‘no.’”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Giuliana Rancic said that her "joke" about Zendaya's hair was a case of bad editing: - "I thought the joke was not edited in the proper way. That's just something I have to live with. It’s very important for me to get out there and tell the real story.”(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

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Giuliana Rancic said that her "joke" about Zendaya's hair was a case of bad editing: - "I thought the joke was not edited in the proper way. That's just something I have to live with. It’s very important for me to get out there and tell the real story.”(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

First Lady Michelle Obama stresses the importance of staying focused to young girls: - “If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn’t be married to the President of the United States.”(Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Global Goals)

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First Lady Michelle Obama doesn't get why Sasha and Malia are on Time's 25 Most Influential Teens list: - “I don’t know why [they’re on the list]. They’re not influential. They just live here [the White House]. They have done nothing to gain any influence. I don’t think they realize they’re influential. I don’t think anyone showed them that article. So don’t show them!”(Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Global Goals)

Steve Harvey doesn't see Caitlyn Jenner as "brave": - “Everybody says it’s the bravest thing they’ve seen, that’s the politically correct thing to say. I can’t wrap my mind around it at all, zero. I have no concept of what that means. Nothing negative, he has every right to live his life the way he wants to, but I can’t come in the house and make that announcement to my wife, to my children, nothing.”(Photos from left:  Jim Spellman/WireImage, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Steve Harvey doesn't see Caitlyn Jenner as "brave": - “Everybody says it’s the bravest thing they’ve seen, that’s the politically correct thing to say. I can’t wrap my mind around it at all, zero. I have no concept of what that means. Nothing negative, he has every right to live his life the way he wants to, but I can’t come in the house and make that announcement to my wife, to my children, nothing.”(Photos from left: Jim Spellman/WireImage, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Kylie Jenner finally admits to having her lips done: - “I have temporary lip fillers. It’s just an insecurity of mine and it’s what I wanted to do. I’m just not ready to talk to reporters about my lips yet… I want to admit to the lips, but people are so quick to judge me on everything, so I might have tiptoed around the truth, but I didn’t lie.”(Photo: Kylie Jenner via Instagram)

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Kylie Jenner finally admits to having her lips done: - “I have temporary lip fillers. It’s just an insecurity of mine and it’s what I wanted to do. I’m just not ready to talk to reporters about my lips yet… I want to admit to the lips, but people are so quick to judge me on everything, so I might have tiptoed around the truth, but I didn’t lie.”(Photo: Kylie Jenner via Instagram)

Chet "White Chocolate" Haze still thinks it's OK for him to use the N-word... kind of: - "I just want to clarify one thing. Under no circumstances would I ever go up to someone I don't know, and say, like, 'What's up, my n***a!' It's an unspoken thing between people who are friends, who understand each other.”(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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Chet "White Chocolate" Haze still thinks it's OK for him to use the N-word... kind of: - "I just want to clarify one thing. Under no circumstances would I ever go up to someone I don't know, and say, like, 'What's up, my n***a!' It's an unspoken thing between people who are friends, who understand each other.”(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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Zoe Saldana admits that she was the wrong actress to play Nina Simone: - “I didn’t think I was right for the part, and I know a lot of people will agree, but then again, I don’t think Elizabeth Taylor was right for Cleopatra either.”(Photo: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Samsung)

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Zoe Saldana admits that she was the wrong actress to play Nina Simone: - “I didn’t think I was right for the part, and I know a lot of people will agree, but then again, I don’t think Elizabeth Taylor was right for Cleopatra either.”(Photo: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Samsung)

President Obama calls the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage a "very proud" moment for America: - "There are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt... All Americans are entitled to the equal protection of the law... America should be very proud.”(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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President Obama calls the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage a "very proud" moment for America: - "There are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt... All Americans are entitled to the equal protection of the law... America should be very proud.”(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Vivica A. Fox stands by calling 50 Cent a booty snatcher: - "I voiced my opinion, but I'm the kind of person where if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. I was just really, really sick and tired of hearing the B.S. about Empire and especially about the gay storyline.”(Photos from left: Michael Loccisano, Lisa Lake/Getty Images)

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Vivica A. Fox stands by calling 50 Cent a booty snatcher: - "I voiced my opinion, but I'm the kind of person where if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. I was just really, really sick and tired of hearing the B.S. about Empire and especially about the gay storyline.”(Photos from left: Michael Loccisano, Lisa Lake/Getty Images)

Bishop T.D. Jakes makes it clear he is against same-sex marriage: - "My position on the subject has been steadfast and rooted in scripture. For the record, I do not endorse same-sex marriage, but I respect the rights that this country affords those that disagree with me.”(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

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Bishop T.D. Jakes makes it clear he is against same-sex marriage: - "My position on the subject has been steadfast and rooted in scripture. For the record, I do not endorse same-sex marriage, but I respect the rights that this country affords those that disagree with me.”(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

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)

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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)