Malik Yusef Quotes

• 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 to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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 the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.

  Malik Yusef

  Rivers, Age, Mountain

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Lo he dividido en tres tipos básicos de personas en las bandas. Tienes el primer tipo, el más peligroso, que son los buscadores de gloria. Sólo quieren ser populares, quieren ser estrellas, y pueden conseguirlo en las bandas. Luego tienes el que creo que es el peor, que es el que se espera que esté en la banda. Luego tienes a los que eran como yo; tenían que serlo.

  Malik Yusef

  Estrellas, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Malik Yusef: Word on the Street". Interview with Andre Sternberg, www.motherjones.com. April 1, 2008.

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• 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 laptop has not been hacked, and there has been no leak of personal data such as unreleased music, photographs, designs, videos or any other personal files. The leak today of the unreleased track 'Awesome' was unrelated and completely coincidental.

  Malik Yusef

  Data, Track, Design

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• 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.

  Malik Yusef

  Boys, People, Doe

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• Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Fighting

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.

  Malik Yusef

  Community, Leader, Way

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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 people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.

  Malik Yusef

  Personas, Donación, Comunidad

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Con esas organizaciones, es como viajar en el tiempo. Me remonto al pasado y encuentro a niños que eran como yo. Quizá las circunstancias varían, pero la fórmula es la misma. Tienen problemas para leer, para comprender algunas de las cosas que se les enseñan.

  Malik Yusef

  Reading, Kids, Organization

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Art, People, Community

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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 we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.

  Malik Yusef

  Rap, Orange Juice, Water

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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 there.

  Malik Yusef

  Dark, People, Sides

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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. Good Morning and Good Night represents one light cycle.

  Malik Yusef

  Good Night, Morning, Light

  "Malik Yusef: Word on the Street". Interview with Andre Sternberg, www.motherjones.com. April 1, 2008.

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