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" Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together. "

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" I think complexity is beautiful. "

" When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive. "

" Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down. "

" America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice. "

" If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jesus ain't American, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don't speak English and are not white when we get there. "

" I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul. "

" My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music. "

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

" I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.' "

" I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely. "

" Growing up in inner-city neighborhoods, there's a particular structure, which I'm sure is true of most social contexts. The type of person you are determines the role you play. "

" I'm all about authenticity. "

" To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was. "

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

" Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life. "

" If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy. "

" I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Christians have no idea how to deal with art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "