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

Lecrae

Connection

Name

Meaning

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lecrae

Pains

Humanity

" 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. "

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

" I'm all about authenticity. "

Lecrae

Authenticity

About

" 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. "

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

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

" I know where my bills get paid from, and that's God! "

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

Lecrae

Confident

People

" I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others. "

Lecrae

People

Know

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

" I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing. "

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

Lecrae

Back

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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "