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

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

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

" There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great. "

" What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am. "

" Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment. "

" I'm digesting C.S. Lewis and Tim Keller and so on and so forth, Francis Schaeffer. I'm seeing how they've affected culture and politics and science and so on and so forth, with implicit faith versus explicit faith. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!' "

" 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. "

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

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" Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me. "

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

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

" I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, 'You need to get your act together.' Faith is about having a loving father who says, 'Hey, listen... I'm here with you. I'm going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.' "

" I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be. "

" 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. "

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

" In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning. "

" 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. "