When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.
— Charlamagne tha God
Be nice to everyone you meet, including janitors, receptionists, and everyone.
Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!
I have had anxiety literally my whole life.
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.
Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.
Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.
I'm a slightly obnoxious person.
All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.
I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.
I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.
People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.
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.'
I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.
Kanye West does not represent all black people.
The majority of my problems stem from other people's issues, but when you're a leader or somebody that people look to for guidance or to be a shoulder to lean on, you got to be strong enough to hold all that weight.
When I'm sitting around, I'm thinking about how I can make my next professional career move, but more than anything, I'm thinking about the meaning of life and how fleeting it is.
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
I learn something new from everyone I interview.
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.
When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I'm having a heart attack.
I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.
Contrary to popular belief, all I want to do is empower people.
You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.
I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.
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.
Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.
If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.
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.
The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.
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.
Me and Kanye have a relationship - not as close as him and Trump, but we have a relationship.
I feel and take in people's energy. Sometimes, I feel the pain of other people.
I'm a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.
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 go to a therapist every week.
Kanye is always going to be Kanye. He is always going to be outspoken. He's always going to say exactly how he feels.
I grew up in a rural area. Books are what helped me transcend my circumstances.
I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.
Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.
My thoughts on Eminem have always been that he is one of the greatest lyricists ever. I've never been a fan because I can't relate to a lot of his world views and experiences, but I acknowledge that he's one of the greatest MCs.
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.
We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.
My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed anything in Moncks Corner, you saw Larry McKelvey.
I feel like we're in the era now where politics is pop culture. Everybody has an opinion that's politically based. We see what the Trump administration has done, and I've never seen my culture this engaged in the political process.
I'm black, and I don't support Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form.
Why wouldn't I believe a gay man who tells me he's the victim of hate crime?
I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.
