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 lik…

- Malik Yusef

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

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 la…

- Malik Yusef

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 seekers. They just want…

- Malik Yusef

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. …

- Malik Yusef

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…

- Malik Yusef

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 th…

- Malik Yusef

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 Goo…

- Malik Yusef

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