Lecrae

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

“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.”

“I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.”

“In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.”

“To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I'm all about authenticity.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.”

“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.”