“I had low self-esteem. I was, like, Mike is corny! I’m gonna be this Omar dude. It was like that was my Spider-Man suit. Peter Parker was the corny kid in glasses, but he put that Spider-Man suit on, it was on and poppin'.”

-- Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little on HBO's “The Wire,” in the New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece, “A Way Out,” about his new role as ACLU ambassador. 

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Tags: The Wire