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" Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, 'You need to get your act together.' Faith is about having a loving father who says, 'Hey, listen... I'm here with you. I'm going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.' "

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" A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us. "

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Media

Believe

Awards

" My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music. "

" 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. "

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

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Pain

Suffering

" History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard. "

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

Lecrae

Opportunities

Creating

" 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. "

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

" In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning. "

" If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure. "

" My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else. "

" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "

" When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!' "

" Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others. "

Lecrae

People

Know

" What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am. "

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Unique

Bring

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

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Urban

Music

" I hate systemic oppression in America. "

" In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police. "

" 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. "

" Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened. "

" I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown. "

Lecrae

Culture

Family

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

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Back

Dude

" I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross' engineers are in Atlanta. "

" Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm. "

" 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. "

" I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre. "

" I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn't mean I'm a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I'm a jacked up person, and I need a savior. "

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Living

Live Life

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

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Confident

People

" I'm not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do. "

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God

Afraid

" I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for. "