"White represents the purity in me. I was an altar boy brought up in a Catholic school and had to wear white a lot. It's God's color. So I wear white because I'm a child of God. I'm showing my belief in God. Whenever I watched cowboys and Indians movies I always thought the cowboy in white looked better than the one in black!" - Sean Combs, SFgate.com
"Celebrity circles: "You go out every night and you see the same assholes, and night after night it's the same shit all over again. Everyone is swimming around the fishbowl and everybody not inside the fishbowl is dying to get in. But once you're in it a while, you realize, there's just a bunch of shit in the fishbowl."
- Tommy Mottola, Fame Ain't It A Bitch, Hyperion Press
"If you were raised up or born in the ghetto, that's what you do naturally [watch your back.] You don't choose the day you're gonna go. That should be the last thing on your mind, that someone could bring harm to you. On my mind is, I'm gonna have a good day. And if someone come and try to change the day, I'ma have an even better day, cause I'm gonna smash him. I don't walk in fear. I don't have nothing to prove to nobody. I'm living the life I dreamed. I'm the man I always wanted to be."- Suge Knight, XXL October 2005
"Hip-hop right now is in a place where it's so much bigger than singling out one particular person. I can't ask an artist like a Lil Jon or a Ying Yang Twins or whoever to not make a song. Them niggas make great party records! I don't have no problems with a 50 Cent telling his story. My problem is with labels and media people who want you to believe that that's all there is, that that is the only story. And that if you want to make it in this business you have to tell a story like that. We're not all killers. We're not all pimps. Some of us do that. But we're also fathers, we're also husbands, we're also niggas that just go to work every day and work regular jobs. It's more to the Black experience than pimpin hoes and being in the club. There has to be another group to show the next generation that you can make music and you can just be a regular person." - Phonte from Little Brother, XXL October 2005
"When the tabloids said I was with Nicole Kidman, a friend, people automatically thought I was wife-in' that or hittin that. It's unfortunate." - Q-Tip, Vibe, October 2005
"Yeah, you can't win on your third album. You're f-cked. I knew we should have stopped. Or someone should have shot me. I think that's the best thing that could happen to us, if someone shot me in the head. Death is guaranteed to make your last work seem good, you know?"
- Chris Martin [Coldplay], Entertainment Weekly, May 27, 2005
"Paris Hilton, who would become Mrs. Kasidokostas if she marries her current fiancé, told a magazine 'I can't even pronounce that sh-t. So I guess spelling it is out of the question." - (shaken in by Anonymous)
"Put aside the deranged ideas of when you're going to get promoted. I've had 22-year-olds come up to me and ask when they're going to be a VP and I want to slap them. Embrace the entry-level job. Everything you've ever wanted will come as a byproduct of creative enthusiasm."- Barney's creative director Simon Doonan
"Every time I sat down to write a rhyme, I always wanted to make sense and show that I went to school and I took language and social studies and that I knew how to write a book report. That's the way I took my rhymes.. Lyrically, I took things from the nursery-rhyme frame of mind, writing things that rhymed and sounded good, and put the ghetto on it. I just wanted people to see what I was talking about, wanted them to see the scenery. So they could put themselves in my place and live out what I was saying."- Rakim, Waxpoetics, Fall 2005
"A little advice: Don't let your friends pick you. You pick your own friends." - (shaken in by A Caring Mother)
"The way we saluting flags, wrapping them around our heads when niggaz ain't become American till 9/11. Feeling like you gotta sneak into heaven, when the reverend looking like a pimp and the pimp look like the reverend." - Talib Kweli (shaken in by Netta)
"You all are hearing things from me, you just haven't heard an album. Who knows? I'm still going in the studio, getting on remixes and things like that. But it's the people. When people want something bad enough, it happens. And they want it bad (laughs). I'm trying to hold out, but I don't know how long I can."
- Jay-Z, Billboard, September 9, 2005
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"Lil Cease: snitch or smart? He's a snitch. You take the stand, you're a snitch. Ain't no way around it. He damn sure ain't commit perjury, so he took the stand and told the truth. Kim's ass committed perjury, so she's the true gangsta." - Jim Jones, King, September 2005
"Groupies?.. It's the same as female ones. Like, how men come out and there are chicks waiting downstairs, and they follow them everywhere. Niggas are the same way.. We see how far we can get them to go cause that's what guys do, like, 'Let me see if I can get her to do this.' Fine. Now it's payback time! We need you to do specific things. Everything has to do with licking - even lickin' the carpet if we say so [laughs]. We tell the guy, 'You and your friend, let me see y'all kiss' [laughs even louder] - things that we wouldn't even like to see. Boy, the things niggas will do when they think it's just them and three girls in a room!"
- Remy Ma, King, September 2005
"Marley's nickname Junior Gong stems from an incident from Damian's youth when he couldn't get through the crowd at an event at Jamaica's Bob Marley Museum. 'Security was inside and saw me outside trying to get in, and started saying to people, 'Make way, make way - that's Gong Junior.'" - Damian Marley, Rolling Stone, September 22, 2005
"My whole life if A-B'ing. A? Or B? Let's look at both options. Maybe we should try it this way. It annoys people around me sometimes. But I can't help myself." - Rick Rubin, Rolling Stone, September 22, 2005
"These young people have to understand that just because I am able to afford it doesn't mean that they can. We work hard for our money and we manage it and save it. People need to save their money so they won't be broke and try to rob me." - Lil Mo, Upscale, October 2005
"I'm not knocking nobody, but a lot of singers haven't had a past that was as fucked up like mine. I love Brandy, Beyonce, Ciara, and all those girls, but we can't relate to one another." - Keyshia Coles, Vibe Vixen, Fall 2005
"In a profession that uses women's bodies to help sell a particular artist and his music, all the girls wish they looked like someone else. Everyone wants to be Janet Jackson or Halle Berry - voluptous where you're supposed to be, nothing in places where you're not. Don't get it twisted; I'm as self-concious as the other girls.. I had the body of a woman by age 12. Throughout my teen years, all my friends were skinny, but I had a big butt, thick legs, big chest, 20-inch waist, and 38-inch hips. I was almost to the point of being suicidal, crying myself to sleep, miserable about the way I looked, hating to watch tv because of the standard of beauty I didn't meet.
I've outgrown a great deal of that insecurity, but I can't say that I''m immune to all the obsessions women have about how we look.. I can see my body's potential, but it's the legs, hips, and butt - the butt that made me famous - that I want to reduce. Men make a big deal about this butt, but I hate not being able to lie flat on my back because my ass is so high up that you can stick your hand through the huge gap. I always thought it would be great if I could shrink it." - Melyssa Ford, Vibe Vixen, Fall 2005 R.I.P
"Sometimes I have a little more junk in my trunk than I care to talk about." - Halle Berry, YRB, September/October 2005
"At the end of the day, yes I have the diamonds. Yes I have the mansion. Yes I have the Rolls Royce, several of them. Does that make me a bitch? One has nothing to do with the other. My dad always said you might not like the things people say about you but the fact that they're talking about you says something about you compared to the person standing next to you. If you read a great article about you and then read a bad one and you rise and fall with each article or thing that's said about you, you end up being fucking psychotic. You have to stay in the middle and take everything with a grain of salt. The happiness, the sunshine, the rain, it's all good and plays part.. So thank you to all the haters on Page 6!" - Kimora Lee-Simmons, YRB, September/October 2005
"There'll always be haters, that's the way it is. Hater n*ggaz marry hater b*tches and have hater kids."
- Kanye West "Bring Me Down" (shaken in by wannano)
"When you want to know what someone's really about...check their friends.
- Adapted from a Japenese Proverb (shaken in by Truth)
Ten Things You Don't Know About Women: 3. "We drink till you're cute too."
- Judy Green, Esquire, September 2005
"He who waits for certainty never wins." - Orison Marden
