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" 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. "
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Heaven
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" History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others. "
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" 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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" I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not like, 'Oh, let me get one tattoo.' It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered. "
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" I'm all about authenticity. "
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" 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. "
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" No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it. "
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" Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down. "
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" I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre. "
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" I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person. "
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" That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' "
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" I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me. "
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" 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. "
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" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "
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" What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am. "
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" 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. "
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" You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine. "
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