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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think complexity is beautiful. "

" 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. "

" Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn't just for the super-religious. I want to address themes that people who aren't Christian can appreciate. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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