Yusef M. Oliver

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[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

I don't know my twitter password. I won't be logging back in after I delete it. I'm more than likely going to hang myself at some point in the future. I'll leave my daughter but she doesn't need a father like me. I'm sick. I can't be there for her.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@pennywrenn I read your article.about suicide. It helped me but it didn't/can't shake these thoughts out my head. I'm 29 and don't know if I'll make it to 30. I want to and DONT want to. Anyway, thanks for the article.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@4wondersClothes @VICE It cripples our self esteem even if we don't know it on a surface level. Not having our fathers (who most likely didn't have theirs--cycle continues) who teach us how to be men, who teach our girls what to demand in a man; respect, intelligence, self worth, responsibility

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@4wondersClothes @VICE It all ties in.
I fell victim to violence and trying to be a gangster and all that bullshit when in reality, I was inadvertently blinded from my own passion that basically drove my creativity.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@4wondersClothes @VICE Knowing where you come from, having a positive image of yourself from an early age, having that reinforced through the media/school/peers/etc. helps MASSIVELY. We (black people) largely grow up still experiencing subjugation

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@4wondersClothes @VICE I'm not a scholar. I can't tell you THE only reason why. All I can say is: having the only history you know about your ancestry is that you come from slavery and before that, just jungle-dwellers, it kind of creates a lack of self love. For you, and for people who look like you.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

Without my constant internal pain and heartache, I'd have no creativity, and I'd be nothing.

I NEED it.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@AndyStumpf77 How the FUCK????

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

Fight day!!! Gets me hyped to see the #Bodysnatcher again.
@DillianWhyte @MatchroomBoxing

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@Wiseguy_Wes FACT

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@PeterAPeel That's...Don't...Well, shit. I'm old.

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@nycgirllauren @pixyrue Yo I had no idea about the origin of "oops" thank you for the knowledge 💪🏽 The last thing I want to do is be that asshole that knows and doesn't do better, let alone the ignorant guy who never even knew

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@TyroneBiggums8 @pixyrue Omari, you're a smart brother for not using it. That's great. I'm 29, and STILL trying to extract it from my vocabulary. My only defense is Detroit made me like this lol

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@pixyrue You know ppl still think you're not black, so you might get some PC sensitivity soon from this

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@FootbalICentral If this doesn't put this man in the conversation as one of the best in the game then that's a GODdamn shame

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@Yes_Its_Slim Bro this picture should be the Lions good luck charm

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@qdiggs6 Kawhi needs to just head on over to the Pistons and get it over with brother

[Jo Kaur @SikhFeminist]

His name is Stephon Clark. He lived with his grandparents & siblings. Stephon was carrying a cellphone - in his own backyard. The police apparently thought it was a weapon and shot him 20 times. 20 times. Killed him.

Stephon was 22. His whole life ahead of him. Horrifying. 💔 https://t.co/zjkjDDSb5O

[Yusef M. Oliver @Deep_Suede]

@BlairImani @VICE This shit really pissed me off...I done seen way too many dead black bodies on the ground in Detroit for me NOT to say something. Shit is PREPOSTEROUS