Malik Yoba

“From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky's the limit.”

“When you walk among your own people and you know that they have a question about your integrity and everyone's giving you the side-eye, the people that used to give you the love, that's a very interesting feeling.”

“My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.”

“At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.”

“We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.”

“If you do God's work, all your needs will be provided.”

“I've always had a lot of gay friends; transgender friends.”

“One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.”

“As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.”

“At the end of the day, there's so much work that has to be done to impact positive change in any direction you look.”

“The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.”

“A lot of times, we don't seek the help. If you come from a family where you might have been abused, a lot of times, particularly with males, regardless of what the ethnic background is there's a sense of like 'Just keep it moving.'”

“I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.”

“It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.”

“It's hard to get movies made.”

“In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.”

“Baltimore obviously has a lot of problems, but there are people there that have a lot of promise.”

“Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.”

“As an adult I wasn't dying to participate in sci-fi projects.”

“I've directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It's just a hat I put on.”