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 manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it. — 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
So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and… — 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 famous, and I like it that way. I like to be found. I don't want to be overexposed. I love when people discover me and discover my music.” quote by Malik Yusef](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/754/malik-yusef-34505_boys_i-let-them-kanye-and-pharrell-be-them-th_1806348.jpg)
