Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Lamar Odom's Kids Need Your Prayers
Plus, words from T.I., Oprah and more.
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Destiny, 17, and Lamar Jr., 13, speak out: - "Thanks for your outpouring of prayers and support for our dad. We are here with our family and friends. We appreciate everyone respecting our privacy at this time. We ask for your continued prayers." (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Magic Johnson really wants to cheer Lamar Odom up: - "I would bring him a bag of Skittles. Because that was his thing. Candy was this thing... I just want to see the smile. Because [then] I know he's OK. I just hope that everything works out."(Photos from left: Jeff Schear/Getty Images for We Day, Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
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Misty Copeland does not identify as biracial, but strictly Black: - "I've gotten some flack from the African-American community...[people] say, 'You're not really Black,' or 'You don't really have dark skin.' I’m fully aware that it's harder to succeed in ballet as a darker-skinned woman, but it has to start somewhere… I know that I'm viewed as a Black woman in society.”(Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images)
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Quentin Tarantino sort of apologizes to Ava DuVernay after slamming Selma, which he hasn't even seen: - “I’m writing you to pass on that the quote from the New York Times piece about Selma is wrong. I never saw Selma. If you look at the article, it was [interviewer Bret Easton Ellis] who was talking about Selma, not me. I did say the line, 'It deserved an Emmy,’ but when I said it, it was more like a question.”(Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)
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Keshia Knight-Pulliam has an interesting opinion on Raven-Symoné's 'ghetto' names comment: - "I guess she wouldn't have hired me. I've got about the most ethnic name you can have!... If that is authentically her opinion, it's hers. It doesn't mean that I have to agree with it or you have to agree with it, or anyone else.”(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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Bobby Brown says writing his memoir was extremely therapeutic: - "Right after I signed on to write my story, I went through one of the most agonizing traumas I had ever experienced with the death of my daughter. But I was surprised by how therapeutic it was to work on this project, to look at the entire arc of my life and to realize that although there has been considerable pain, I have also been incredibly blessed.”(Photo: Maury Phillips/Getty Images for BET)
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John Boyega says "deal with it" to racist Star Wars critics: - "I'm in the movie; What are you going to do about it? You either enjoy it or you don’t. I'm not saying get used to the future, but what is already happening. People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.”(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
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T.I. thinks women are too emotional to be president: - "Just because every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But the president? It’s kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally — they make very permanent, cemented decisions — and then later, it’s kind of like it didn’t happen or they didn’t mean for it to happen."(Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images)
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...and Tiny's got his back: - "No, I don’t feel disrespected because I know him and I know who he is either way. I think it was not tasteful, but I definitely think I’m not disrespected. I know the man that he is… You know, he wants the woman to be a woman and be treated like a princess.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Oprah, on the other hand, is totally not here for T.I.'s words: - “Honey child, hush yo' mouth. You don’t know what you’re talking about… Some people just like to hear themselves talk.”(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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