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" I think complexity is beautiful. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I know where my bills get paid from, and that's God! "

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

" I'm all about authenticity. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress. "

" My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.' "

" 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. "

" You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of. "