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.

Brooks said of his role as Hawk: "I never thought of myself as the sidekick. Stallone many years ago — I have great respect for Mr. He also portrayed Robeson in Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? both on and Off-Broadway.

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2 1948) is an American actor. Robert Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk and as Dr.