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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Working Together

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music. "

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

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

" 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!' "

" Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda. "

" 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. "

" I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown. "

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

Take For Granted

" 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. "

" 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. "