I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got famous, and I like it that way. I like to be found. I don't want to… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
I've broken it down to three basic types of people in gangs. You have the first type, the most dangerous, which are the glory… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle.… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
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