I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,_x000D_ _x000D_ I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets._x000D_ _x000D_ That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea that divine presence is often found in the most marginalized and troubled parts of society.
Killer Mike emphasizes that instead of seeking God in traditional or sanitized places, he finds Him among those who are often deemed as society's outcasts—junkies, liars, thieves, and others living difficult lives. This speaks to the idea that redemption and spirituality can be found in the most unlikely places and that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, has the potential for connection with the divine.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about finding hope in urban communities.
I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.
The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.
We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.
For the people of Baltimore, I don't criticize rioting, because I understand it. But after the fires die down, organize, strategize, and mobilize.
I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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