89 Quotes by Malik Yoba

Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

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.

I'm a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.

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

At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.

If you tell yourself you can't, you're right.

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.

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?