A biography for Kirk Franklinhasn’t been written yet.
“If we are so holy and so perfect and never interact with people that may not go to church or may not be where we think we are, then how will they ever get light?”
“That's why gospel will never be pop music - it's not something that'd be everyone's cup of tea.”
“When people are taught, especially at a young age, that they're created for something bigger, that gives them hope.”
“Really, at the end of the day, if I want to keep God part of the conversation then I will do everything I can to make that happen.”
“Hate and bigotry should not be carrying a Bible and dressing up like a so called child of God.”
“If anyone has a problem with me, they can just take it up with God.”
“Sometimes I long for the parents I didn't have; that's a recurring nightmare.”
“People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.”
“More than anything, I'm trying to peel back those layers that keep people away from God and keep people away from experiencing the love of God and knowing God's love as a father.”
“Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.”
“Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.”
“A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.”
“I wasn't trying to be no national name or nothing. I didn't have that idea to even think that was possible.”
“I'm not trying to be a spiritual leader to the stars. I think that title is very gross.”
“When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.”
“My phone bill is four thousand dollars when I'm out of the country.”
“I'm borderline vegan.”
“I hope in telling the truth, I can heal others.”
“Wanting to be happy is something that every human being aspires to have.”
“There's no truth without love and love can't exist without truth.”