Word? Celebrity Quotes: Week of December 9, 2011

New quotes from Beyoncé, Kanye West, Drake and more.

Beyoncé on wanting to break her pregnancy news herself:  - “Physically I was starting to show, so it was only a matter of days before someone zoomed in. So I just wanted it to be from me, and I wanted it to be something that was a celebration of something so beautiful.”(Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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Beyoncé on wanting to break her pregnancy news herself:  - “Physically I was starting to show, so it was only a matter of days before someone zoomed in. So I just wanted it to be from me, and I wanted it to be something that was a celebration of something so beautiful.”(Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Drake (@Drake) - TWEET: "I ask 'Yo cj do they have chicken burgers'…To which he replies 'they might do' #jacksonmississippi" Drake makes light of colloquialisms during a trip down south. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Drake on rumors he’s leaving Young Money:  - "I tell you if you ever wake up one morning and you think Young Money ain't my team? You out yo' m-----f----n' mind, I'm a tell you that right now." (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Ja Rule on issues he’s had while in prison:  - “I even got into it wit these stupid niggas trying to assassinate my character talking about I’m snitching to the guards and that I’m getting special treatment.”(Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup)

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Ja Rule on issues he’s had while in prison:  - “I even got into it wit these stupid niggas trying to assassinate my character talking about I’m snitching to the guards and that I’m getting special treatment.”(Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup)

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Kanye West  - Maybe it was because West caused such ill will after stealing Taylor Swift’s shine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. But not long afterward, he became the latest celebrity reported to be dead via Twitter. Tweets saying that West had been killed in a car accident were all over the web.(Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Kanye West on why he thinks the Grammys didn’t nominated him for Album of the Year:  - “Everybody came to me last night like, ‘Congratulations,’ because you know [I had]… the most Grammy nominations once again. Like we always do… You know people focus, they said, 'You ain't have Album of the Year or Record of the Year.' But I've figured out, though, that’s my fault for dropping Watch the Throne and Dark Fantasy in the same year. I should have just spaced it out just a little bit more.” (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Donald Trump on Black folks and role models:  - “President Obama is the inner city’s only role model. Unfortunately he hasn’t turned out to be much of [one].”   (Photo: REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

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Donald Trump on Black folks and role models:  - “President Obama is the inner city’s only role model. Unfortunately he hasn’t turned out to be much of [one].”   (Photo: REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

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Nicki Minaj at Billboard’s Women in Music Awards: - “Barbz, I love you so much for being by my side for such a long time. Billboard, thank you so much for recognizing me. Even before Superbass and even before Pink Friday, you believed in me."(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

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Nicki Minaj at Billboard’s Women in Music Awards: - “Barbz, I love you so much for being by my side for such a long time. Billboard, thank you so much for recognizing me. Even before Superbass and even before Pink Friday, you believed in me."(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Anthony Anderson - "RIP Dwight Heavy D Meyers you'll be missed brother!" (Photo: Fernando Leon/PictureGroup)

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Anthony Anderson on returning to comedic roles:  - “Comedy is something that comes naturally to me. I get to have fun. Drama is something I wanted to show the world before I was typecast as the funny guy.” (Photo: Fernando Leon/PictureGroup)

Fabolous on Emily and Kimbella drama on Love and Hip Hop:  - "I wouldn’t say they [the show’s producers] don’t care about Emily. But they’re there to make entertaining television and if they can dig up a girl from four years ago who could make an interesting twist in an episode of their show, guess what? They will do it.” (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Gucci)

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Fabolous on Emily and Kimbella drama on Love and Hip Hop:  - "I wouldn’t say they [the show’s producers] don’t care about Emily. But they’re there to make entertaining television and if they can dig up a girl from four years ago who could make an interesting twist in an episode of their show, guess what? They will do it.” (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Gucci)

Long Agrees to Mediation - Bishop Eddie Long, whose sexual coercion lawsuits rocked headlines in September, recently agreed to go to mediation with his four accusers – Spencer LeGrande, 22, Jamal Parris, 23, Anthony Flagg, 21, and Maurice Robinson, 20 ¬¬– in February. The young men have accused the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church leader of abusing his spiritual authority and exchanging lavish gifts for sex while they were teenagers. If the mediation doesn’t go well, a tentative trial date is scheduled for July 11, 201

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Bishop Eddie Long on facing the issue of his marriage:   - “I’m going to take a little time off to work with my family.… I do want you to know that this is, for me and my family, especially with me, one of the most difficult times and things I’ve had to face, and only because my strength, other than God, is in Miss Vanessa.” (Photo: Amis/AP Photo, Pool)

Holly Robinson Peete - Holly Robinson channeled her inner glamazon at the 2010 BET Awards; her reddish-brown wavy mane looked effortless, and her eyes were highlighted by a hint of silver.(Photo: Gregg DeGuire/PictureGroup)

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Holly Robinson Peete on being fired from The Talk: - "I think everything happens for a reason, and there are a lot of things happening now that wouldn’t be if I was still on 'The Talk.' But I do miss it, and I hope to do more daytime TV.” (Photo: Gregg DeGuire/PictureGroup)

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Sinbad on doing stand-up comedy:  - “I’ve been on the road since ’83, I’m never gonna stop.” (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Sinbad on doing stand-up comedy:  - “I’ve been on the road since ’83, I’m never gonna stop.” (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Wendy Raquel Robinson on advising Tia Mowry as a mom:  - “I could give her parenting advice because I have the kids that I’ve worked with and the parents come to me for advice in helping their children, even at home.” (Photo: Vince Bucci/PictureGroup)

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Wendy Raquel Robinson on advising Tia Mowry as a mom:  - “I could give her parenting advice because I have the kids that I’ve worked with and the parents come to me for advice in helping their children, even at home.” (Photo: Vince Bucci/PictureGroup)

Phaedra Parks on NeNe Leakes’s denial of knowing male stripper Redickulous:  - “He doesn’t have a reason to lie. She was an adult entertainer and so is he. It’s very believable that they would run in the same circles and know each other.” (Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)

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Phaedra Parks on NeNe Leakes’s denial of knowing male stripper Redickulous:  - “He doesn’t have a reason to lie. She was an adult entertainer and so is he. It’s very believable that they would run in the same circles and know each other.” (Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)