Avery Brooks Quotes

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

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

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. - Avery Brooks

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. - Avery Brooks

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. - Avery Brooks

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

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

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