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.

Lecrae

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there's no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well.

Lecrae

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross' engineers are in Atlanta.

Lecrae

Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, 'You need to get your act together.' Faith is about having a loving father who says, 'Hey, listen... I'm here with you. I'm going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.'

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae

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!'

Lecrae

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

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae

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.

Lecrae