All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

by Jonathan Abrams

MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS (OMAR LITTLE): It was Season Three that I had to get humbled. I had to go through some things. When I got there, I realized that, “Mike, this ain’t even about you. This is bigger than you and your career and all this shit.” I started looking at the story of the people that The Wire was telling and the people it was affecting and how it was affecting. This little dude from Chicago, Mr. Senator, or Barack Obama, mentioned that it’s his favorite show, and then he’s president of the United States. All of that kind of just came about. I was like, “Okay, whoa. Like, whoa. That just happened.” It put me on my quest. That was the beginning of my enlightenment, when I started realizing that I can be of service through the gift that I’ve been given to express myself through art and the story that I tell through art. It became something other for me than just about my career.