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" I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment? "

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

Lecrae

Pain

Suffering

" Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand. "

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

" Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well. "

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

Lecrae

Back

Dude

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

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

" We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy. "

" Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. "

" I hate systemic oppression in America. "

" Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith. "

" No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it. "

" I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "

" Waka is really intelligent. A lot of people don't know that because he just gets people hyped up, but he's a dynamic individual, and once you get to know him, you get to see a lot of that. "

" I spent some time in Cairo, and you see these Coptic Christians and Muslims holding hands. They got a rich history together of working together and cohabitating. You couldn't pay to see that in America. "

" 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 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.' "

" Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others. "

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

Lecrae

Confident

People

" 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. "

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

" 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. "

" A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time. "

" That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' "

" It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups. "

" I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn't okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, 'Hey, you should rap about Jesus.' "

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

Lecrae

Opportunities

Creating

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

" 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. "

" 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. "