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I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.

Michael K. Williams

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Michael K. Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 22
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Michael Kenneth Williams
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