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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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People

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm all about authenticity. "

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Authenticity

About

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice. "

" When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive. "

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Life

" I always liked the content of a Common but the commercial viability of a Lil Jon. And I would say, 'Why don't those worlds ever come together?' So for me, it was like, 'Let's do that.' "

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Why

Together

" Christians have no idea how to deal with art. "

" College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy. "

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

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Unique

Bring

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

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Urban

Music

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

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Pains

Humanity

" 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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Living

Live Life

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

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

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

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

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God

Afraid

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