Quotes from Charlamagne tha God

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

I just remember saying to myself, 'I want to be a super jock.' I don't want to be just some radio personality in some town somewhere doing the time and temperature and the latest song.

Anybody who knows me knows I'm a Marvel fanatic. I have Wolverine tatted on my right arm.

I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.

Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.

With the success of 'Black Privilege,' of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don't do things for money.

I go to a therapist every week.

There's nothing like seeing your floor clear because you organized and cleared the space of all that clutter. That's how I feel when I go to my therapist.

I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don't think you need it, we need it.

I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.

Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

When you're looking for good lyrics, you turn to Kendrick Lamar, you turn to J Cole, you turn to Wale, you turn to Chance the Rapper, you turn to Rapsody. You don't turn to Post Malone.

I think Post Malone makes great records, but I don't think he's a good rapper at all.

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.

The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.

I bet you my body is three-quarters Red Bull.

One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That's when I said, 'Okay, enough.' I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way.

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

I like New York, man - I ain't gonna front. The only thing I probably don't like about New York is that, coming from the South, people aren't hospitable. You tell somebody 'Hi,' and they look at you like you're out your freaking mind.

Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed - that love has to be reciprocated.

It's always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it's a diss or not.

God gave you the privilege of this thing called life, so regardless of what this society tells you that you can't do and what you don't have to, understand you lack nothing. God gave you everything you need to succeed.

We don't have to treat homosexuals like they are aliens living amongst us. They are regular people.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'