Quotes from Malik Yoba

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 always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

Success is putting one step in front of the other to get through that door whatever that door is.

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

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

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.

As your life expands your focus expands or contracts.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Sometimes you have producers tell you 'I'm a huge fan, I'm a huge fan.' But David Guggenheim, I have so much love for this dude.

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.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

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

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

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

Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.

I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the '80s, and I'd look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking 'Whoever designed this and built this did not want it to look like this.' So, I used to visualize one day being able to contribute and build in Harlem.

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