Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Kanye West Faces Discrimination for Being Straight?

Plus, words from Tamar Braxton and Rihanna.

Kanye West says he’s being discriminated against in fashion for being straight: - "I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay. In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers. Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career. I feel like it's so cliché to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that break the stereotypes make history."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)

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Kanye West says he’s being discriminated against in fashion for being straight: - "I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay. In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers. Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career. I feel like it's so cliché to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that break the stereotypes make history."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)

Taylor Swift thinks she may be a bit overexposed: - "I think I should take some time off. I think people might need a break from me. I'm going to... I don't know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know."(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Taylor Swift thinks she may be a bit overexposed: - "I think I should take some time off. I think people might need a break from me. I'm going to... I don't know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know."(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Rachel Dolezal is Rihanna’s hero: - “I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be Black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”(Photo: Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)

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Rachel Dolezal is Rihanna’s hero: - “I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be Black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”(Photo: Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)

Kordell Stewart denied even knowing Andrew ‘I don’t like mens’ Caldwell: - “I don’t know the guy. I’ve never heard of him. There’s no room in my personality for that lifestyle. It’s not what I believe in. I’m a heterosexual man.”(Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)

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Kordell Stewart denied even knowing Andrew ‘I don’t like mens’ Caldwell: - “I don’t know the guy. I’ve never heard of him. There’s no room in my personality for that lifestyle. It’s not what I believe in. I’m a heterosexual man.”(Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)

Jesse Williams sees nothing wrong with Black people being angry: - “There is zero evidence, zero evidence that Black people are more inclined to be angry in a vacuum than anybody else… It’s a community that’s f**king hurting and is really disappointed in itself, in the people that it trusted, in the government it paid taxes to. That is where the frustration comes from.”(Photo: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for BET)

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Jesse Williams sees nothing wrong with Black people being angry: - “There is zero evidence, zero evidence that Black people are more inclined to be angry in a vacuum than anybody else… It’s a community that’s f**king hurting and is really disappointed in itself, in the people that it trusted, in the government it paid taxes to. That is where the frustration comes from.”(Photo: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for BET)

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Amber Rose is planning to work on the second annual SlutWalk sooner than you may think: - “We’re actually working on the next Slut Walk in two weeks. It’s going to be annually, we’re going to try to do it in different cities every year.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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Amber Rose is planning to work on the second annual SlutWalk sooner than you may think: - “We’re actually working on the next Slut Walk in two weeks. It’s going to be annually, we’re going to try to do it in different cities every year.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

Nicki Minaj reads Miley Cyrus for filth about appropriating Black culture: - "If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn't not want to know that."(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Nicki Minaj reads Miley Cyrus for filth about appropriating Black culture: - "If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn't not want to know that."(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Jermaine Dupri says working with Mariah Carey made him a rich man: - "It made me rich [laughs]. People were only looking at the things I did with Kris Kross and Xscape. I didn’t talk on the [“Always Be My Baby”] record, so it didn’t jump out to people that that was my song. It solidified me as the No. 1 producer at Columbia Records, I can say that. It made my relationship with the label really become A-1.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group)

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Jermaine Dupri says working with Mariah Carey made him a rich man: - "It made me rich [laughs]. People were only looking at the things I did with Kris Kross and Xscape. I didn’t talk on the [“Always Be My Baby”] record, so it didn’t jump out to people that that was my song. It solidified me as the No. 1 producer at Columbia Records, I can say that. It made my relationship with the label really become A-1.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group)

Zoe Kravitz loves being a brown naturalista: - “I originally did [the braids] as a joke, like an ode to the ’90s. They aren’t some symbolic thing, but it still feels important, I think, to be a brown girl with natural hair. You see blond girls with the same hair in every movie.”(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows)

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Zoe Kravitz loves being a brown naturalista: - “I originally did [the braids] as a joke, like an ode to the ’90s. They aren’t some symbolic thing, but it still feels important, I think, to be a brown girl with natural hair. You see blond girls with the same hair in every movie.”(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows)

Mariah Carey has some special makeup advice for biracial women: - “Stay closest to your natural color of your skin because we range in color, us biracial women. I would just say: be yourself and go with the colors that really work for you. It’s really hard to just lump all biracial people into one category because some of us have light eyes, some of us have dark eyes, some of us are darker and lighter.”(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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Mariah Carey has some special makeup advice for biracial women: - “Stay closest to your natural color of your skin because we range in color, us biracial women. I would just say: be yourself and go with the colors that really work for you. It’s really hard to just lump all biracial people into one category because some of us have light eyes, some of us have dark eyes, some of us are darker and lighter.”(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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After ending her talk show, Oprah wanted to have more of a cultural impact around the world: - “I wanted to have a way to speak to people and be connected and cultivate more meaningful conversations that mattered to people.....my dream of of having this network and programming created to uplift and to entertain. We have invested in storytelling. We have created a space where our loyal audience can come week after week.”(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for FIJI Water)

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After ending her talk show, Oprah wanted to have more of a cultural impact around the world: - “I wanted to have a way to speak to people and be connected and cultivate more meaningful conversations that mattered to people.....my dream of of having this network and programming created to uplift and to entertain. We have invested in storytelling. We have created a space where our loyal audience can come week after week.”(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for FIJI Water)

Here’s why Quincy Brown would not play a gay character: - It's too early in my career. I'm not trying to explore that far yet. I'm 23, you feel me?"(Photo: Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images)

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Here’s why Quincy Brown would not play a gay character: - It's too early in my career. I'm not trying to explore that far yet. I'm 23, you feel me?"(Photo: Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images)

Tamar Braxton recalls her most memorable and life-changing moment in life thus far: - “2012 is my memorable year because I almost lost my husband Vince. Vince and I were on a trip to New York and he told me he wasn’t feeling well. We ended up in the emergency room and they tell us he has multiple blood clots in his lungs. Vince was induced into a coma and the only thing I could think about was ‘How am I going to live without the love of my life by my side?’”(Photo: Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Neighborhood Awards)

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Tamar Braxton recalls her most memorable and life-changing moment in life thus far: - “2012 is my memorable year because I almost lost my husband Vince. Vince and I were on a trip to New York and he told me he wasn’t feeling well. We ended up in the emergency room and they tell us he has multiple blood clots in his lungs. Vince was induced into a coma and the only thing I could think about was ‘How am I going to live without the love of my life by my side?’”(Photo: Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Neighborhood Awards)