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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think complexity is beautiful. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I'm either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I'm this tree-hugging liberal. You're stereotyped. It's almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be. "