“I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlet...” — Khalid Quote

“I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.”

“With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.”

“I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'”

“We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.”

“How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?”

“At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.”