Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Jesse Williams Drops Knowledge, Stacey Dash Spits Foolishness

Plus, words from John Legend, Tina Lawson and more.

Stacey Dash accuses Jesse Williams of perpetuating Black stereotypes: - "That chip on the shoulders of people like you will weigh you down and keep you from flying free. But true freedom is never free. You have to know how to fly. If anyone is making you feel this way its you. Living in a psychological prison of your own making. If anyone is GHETTO-IZING anyone, it’s people like you letting the BETs and other media outlets portray us in stereotypes.”

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Stacey Dash accuses Jesse Williams of perpetuating Black stereotypes: - "That chip on the shoulders of people like you will weigh you down and keep you from flying free. But true freedom is never free. You have to know how to fly. If anyone is making you feel this way its you. Living in a psychological prison of your own making. If anyone is GHETTO-IZING anyone, it’s people like you letting the BETs and other media outlets portray us in stereotypes.”

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Here's who Jesse Williams dedicated his Humanitarian Award to: - "This is for the real organizers all over the country — the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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These are the two words that come to Katt Williams’s mind when he hears Tyler Perry’s name: - "Drag queen."(Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for The Vanity Group)

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Tina Lawson admits Beyoncé wasn’t a huge fan of the wedding dress she designed for her: - "She was so sweet to let me do that. She came back later one day and she said, 'You know, when my daughter gets married, I'm going to let her pick out her own dress.' Maybe she wasn't so excited about it at the time, but she's a sweetheart.”(Photo: Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic)

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Lena Dunham says Kanye West makes her feel “unsafe”: - "I know that there’s a hipper or cooler reaction to have than the one I’m currently having. But guess what? I don’t have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift... a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films…”(Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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John Legend compares Kim Kardashian’s cooking to old school soul food: - "It's very old school, too. It's not like, there's no frills... It's like what you would have at church on Sunday.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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No reality TV for Karrueche Tran: - "No. I've been offered plenty of times. Reality TV, I'm just not really into, especially with me trying to be an actor. It's a major long term goal for me. So I kind of feel like they conflict one another, so reality TV is a no for me right now.”(Photo: Mike Windle/Getty Images for Beautycon)

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Nick Gordon blames Bobbi Kristina for her own death: - “What happened to Krissy was Krissy’s own doing, sad as it is. I didn’t get to go to my fiancée’s funeral. There’s a lot of regret there. On the day I went to the beach and watched the waves. It was something she liked to do and I talked to her and I cried.”(Photo: Tiffany Rose/WireImage)

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Here’s how Future feels about seeing Russell Wilson with his son: - "It's something that'll take more time for me. It ain't even about [him] playing daddy. I don't even want to think about it. That's my son forever. My son is going to be able to read this. He's going to be able to look at those pictures. He's going to be able to have a judgment for himself, and have a conversation with me man-to-man. That's my blood. He is me. I am him. We is one.”(Photo: Prince Williams/GC Images)

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Michael Jai White doesn’t take back anything he said about the Oscars: - "The only regret is how negative people try to take anything. I regret saying anybody’s name because instead of using a name to express the point, social media people try to insinuate that I’m going after that person. No, I don’t regret anything I said."(Photo: Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Falcon Rising)

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Damon Dash only had one problem with the Lemonade “Becky” critics: - “The only issue I had is them putting pressure on my children. And for me it’s the history between me and Jay [Z] and me being his partner at the time in Roc-A-Feller and Rocawear and all that and [his] best friend. Of course on a human level, it would bother me.” (Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)

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Debra Lee talks Beyoncé’s dedication during her BET Awards rehearsals: - "Beyoncé would rehearse late at night for hours. She and the dancers would get wet, look at the tape and then get wet again. The night I went, all the dancers were onstage in bathrobes waiting to rehearse again. At one point they started heating the water to make Beyoncé and the dancers more comfortable.”(Photo: Leon Bennett/WireImage)