Avery Brooks Quotes

"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

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

"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