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" As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves. "

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" I'm all about authenticity. "

" People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does. "

" I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit. "

" Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude. "

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

" When you have legends who want to do music with you, and you befriend the Kendrick Lamars and the Chance the Rappers, that's due to you really being authentically hip-hop and not being contemporary Christian. "

" When God's hand is on you, there's nothing anybody can do to stop that. "

" I know I'm wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don't have any bearing on my worth and what I mean. "

" Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda. "

" My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life. "

" You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus. "

" I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That's no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things. "

" I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing. "

" Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become. "

" A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me. "

" College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it. "

" Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned. "

" Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church. "

" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "

" I'm digesting C.S. Lewis and Tim Keller and so on and so forth, Francis Schaeffer. I'm seeing how they've affected culture and politics and science and so on and so forth, with implicit faith versus explicit faith. "

" Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that's doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that's really the lane that I uniquely connect with. "

" Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual. "

" People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive. "

" I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go. "

" The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate. "

" The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people. "