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" 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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" 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. "

" Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual. "

" As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think complexity is beautiful. "

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

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

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

" When God's hand is on you, there's nothing anybody can do to stop that. "

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

" 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. "