Avery Brooks
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"Avery Franklin Brooks" is an American actor, director and occasional singer. Brooks is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire/Spenser for Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X.

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At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran].

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

This man knew how to live. He was the authentic embodiment of a dream, ancient wanderer. He lived it. Talked it. Felt it. Fought it until at last the magic of his dream power became to us what it was to him.

He taught us that to stand and be counted was the way to be.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

What a magnificent man. This man knew how to live. He gave us so much to last many lifetimes.