Top 55 Malik Yoba Quotes

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I think it's hard for anyone to get into real estate or

I think it’s hard for anyone to get into real estate or Hollywood.
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I’m happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you’re only as focused as experience will allow you to be.
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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.
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Film and television, one is generally faster. Television generally moves faster in terms of directing, schedules and getting things done. Film, you’re on a pretty tight schedule, so the process is the dame.
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When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they’re thinking.
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We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.
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I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.
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No matter what your dream is, first you have to think that anything is possible.
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I’ve had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.
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If you tell yourself you can’t, you’re right.
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I’m doing work in the community.
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My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him. She left him after having six kids.
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If you do God’s work, all your needs will be provided.
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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.
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I believe in making your own opportunity.
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We didn’t even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the ‘idiot box.’
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I’m proud to be part of projects that literally change lives.
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For me, I’ve always been an entrepreneur.
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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?
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I’ve always had a lot of gay friends; transgender friends.
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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.
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My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.
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People think that it’s ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they’re in the public eye.
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Baltimore and Detroit – they are solid cities.
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Baltimore obviously has a lot of problems, but there are people there that have a lot of promise.
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Food is very powerful.
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Even when I did ‘New York Undercover’ I put together a five-year marketing and promotional campaign to maximize the exposure of that show.
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As your life expands your focus expands or contracts.
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Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.
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My favorite scripture is, ‘Your gifts make room for you.’ It’s something I tell people all the time.
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It’s not all about starring in a TV show for me. It’s about being able to provide opportunity and employment for other people.
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As I kid I watched 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactic

As I kid I watched ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica.’
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As an adult I wasn’t dying to participate in sci-fi projects.
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It’s hard to get movies made.
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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.
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Being a part of ‘Empire’ was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.
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I fear no one.
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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.
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I come up from a music background.
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It’s important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.
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Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don’t know that.
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From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky’s the limit.
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I’m a rabble rouser, man!
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Success is putting one step in front of the other to get through that door whatever that door is.
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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.
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Fantasies are not always what people think they are.
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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.
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I break rules all the time.
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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.
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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.
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My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.
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I’ve directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It’s just a hat I put on.
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I made some money, some real money on my first real estate transaction.
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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.’
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I’m a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.
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