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Kanye West on the American Dream: - "I know people want to talk about the American Dream, but my dream is a world dream. It's a world in which everyone's main goal would be to help each other... You get back what you put out, and the more positive energy you put out, the more positive energy you'll get back."(Photo: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA/Landov)

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Tina Knowles-Lawson on Blue Ivy convincing her to get married to Richard Lawson: - "[In September], we went on a boat with Beyoncé and Jay Z and when we came out one night dressed to go to dinner, Blue said, ‘Oh, y’all look beautiful. When are y’all getting married?' Richard said, ‘Oh, Blue, soon. Do you approve?'"(Photo: C.Smith/ WENN.com)

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Lisa Raye-McCoy on society not permitting Black women to act like Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift: - “[Taylor Swift] sings about it all the time. Let that be a Black girl and that’s a problem. Let somebody do a sex tape that’s a Black girl and her career is ruined.”(Photo: FayesVision/WENN.com)

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Cory Hardrict on police brutality: - "If you're from another race, they will chill, they will Taser you and calm you down. But us? Oh, they gon' kill our a***s.”(Photo: Roger Walsh /Landov)

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Queen Latifah on racial profiling: - "As a daughter of a police officer, I knew more stories of things happening in the right way rather than the wrong way, but you don't really hear those stories… We have to see kids as kids, not as big, scary adult men.”(Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Landov)

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Amber Rose on rumors that she is joining Fashion Police: - "It's not my type of show... Who am I to critique anyone? I gotta sleep at night, so I need to do what I'm comfortable with... I can't sit there to critique anybody, because I like individuals. So if you have something on and no one else likes it, I'm probably gonna always like it. So I don't know if I'd be a good judge."(Photo: Valerie Macon/Getty Images)

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Jamie Foxx on seeing Chris Brown with his baby: - "I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this, but I just saw Chris Brown with his little daughter backstage [and] it was absolutely mind-blowing. It was something that I just went–tears for everybody… I’ve known Chris since he was 15. Some of the things that people don’t get to see [in] Chris, on the inside…like when he comes and dance with my sister, who has Down Syndrome, for hours at the crib and no one see that. So it’s some really blessed things this kid has to offer.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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Joan Smalls on feeling awkward growing up, but finding inspiration through women on TV: - “I was so awkward-looking — tall, super skinny, gangly. The boys at school made fun of me. But I’d see those girls on TV and I’d think, 'Oh, they have my same body type.'”(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival)

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Brandy on finding happiness after her split from ex Ryan Press: - "This last heartbreak was really hard, you know what I mean? It’s time. I just made a decision that even through heartbreak, you have to affirm that all will be well and in time you will feel better. And I feel better. I feel great! I feel strong. And I love it. I want everyone to feel strong because that’s when you can do it all — when you feel like you can."(Photo: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com)

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Loni Love on her dream lead role: - "I would love to do an action movie where me and some other actresses help protect women or children with a comedic twist. You don’t see a lot of action comedy films that are also family oriented and I think that is important. I also like playing roles where I can be funny but still participate in thrilling action scenes."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Mary J. Blige on surviving years of abuse and drama: - "I'm grateful for it though and it hurt like hell because it was public... and I was like 'good Lord.' It was very, very painful because back in the day, I've been through hell but with today's social media and the news and it was something so big and disastrous, it had to be for something good."(Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

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Rihanna on her inspiration for her eighth studio album: - "I run away from anything that does not stimulate me. I often find myself gravitating toward the underground. There is a certain creative freedom there that you can’t experience anywhere else."(Photo: Steve C Mitchel/EPA/Landov)

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