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Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Serena Williams Opens Up About Her Pregnancy

Plus, T.I., Kobe and more.

It's been a dramatic week for celebrities, ranging from Serena Williams admitting to her pregnancy announcement being an accident to Kobe Bryant inspiring Queen Bey.

See what some of your favorite famous faces had to say below:

  1. Kobe Bryant says Beyoncé told him he’s her personal mentor:

    (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

    Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival

    (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

    “I took my girls to see Beyoncé in concert, and we went backstage to say hey to B. I told her, ‘You killed it tonight,’ and she said, ‘I learned it from you.’”

  2. Aretha Franklin speaks on rejecting a hug from Dionne Warwick:

    (Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock)

    Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock

    (Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock)

    “I said, ‘Oh, hell no.’ You couldn’t be serious.”

  3. Shamea comes for Phaedra at the RHOA reunion:

    “Girl, you the one that’s going to the St. Regis, trying to get you a pair of shoes, chile. Screwing anybody that will screw you.”

  4. T.I. recalls a time he got kicked out of history class for questioning Christopher Columbus:

    "This is what I see happening. I see strong levels of entrapment. Simply because, first and foremost, if you look at America and the history of violence that America has, in contemporary, more recent times, it's easy to say all the violence comes from the urban community, from the young African-American men. OK, but what about before then? What about when America was founded? What principals were America founded on? What tactics were taken to acquire this body of land?"

  5. Shekinah talks being physically abused by her ex:

    "I called the police before I went on Instagram," she clarified. "I got pissed off at the police because they weren't coming. I was like, 'Hey, somebody needs to know what this man has done to me.' I don't approve of no woman getting their a** beat."

  6. Serena Williams’s pregnancy announcement was an accident:

    "I was just saving them [for myself]. I've been so good about it, but this was the one time it slipped.”

  7. Peter Thomas speaks on what happened between him and Matt Jordan:

    “He charged me! And the whole time he was coming at me, I had a box cutter in my pocket. and Matt’s like 6’5 and 250…. he’s like 33/35 and I’m 56… I don’t wanna fight this n***a! F**k I’m doing fighting? That Brooklyn s**t came outta me…that Jamaican s**t came outta me quick!” he continued. “I had that n***a in a neck hold and the box cutter to his face! When he saw it, he panicked like a b***h!”

  8. Joe Budden slams Lil Yachty:

    "I don’t think that Yachty is hip-hop. I don't think that Yachty's label is hip-hop. When you're not hip-hop and you're trying to just troll or exploit, you get things like this."

  9. Isiah Thomas's Son Zeke opens up about being raped twice:

    “Being gay, being African-American, it’s definitely something that I never imagined would happen to me. At first I didn't realize what had happened, what had transpired. I knew that it was wrong, I knew that I did not want it. I did not seek it out. I hadn't let my family know until much later that this had happened.”

  10. Here’s what Talib Kweli thinks about Trump’s America:

    “I think it’s made people understand the bar is set way lower for white people. Trump can be mediocre and he could even be a failure. Obama had to work so much [harder] than everybody else, he had so many more obstacles in front of him than Donald Trump has and he still was called a monkey. He was still called a liar to his face by our congressman.”

  11. Amber Rose wants you to know Odell Beckham Jr. is not gay:

    (Photo: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for NYLON Media)

    Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for NYLON Media

    (Photo: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for NYLON Media)

    “He is not gay by the way. I am so sick of people saying that about Odell. He is visually beautiful right and so people look at him and are like damn he is beautiful and he is nice and he is cool and he likes to dance. I am 150% sure he is not gay!”

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