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Sidney Poitier Biography

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (/ˈpwɑːtieɪ/; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

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If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Done, Energy, Good Things, Plenty, Sparked, Things

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Caste, Country, Job, Jobs, People

I'm going to quit writing.

Quit, Quitting, Writing

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Domination, Ethnic, Hopeless, Hopelessness, Racial

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

Thinking, Talking, Trying, Say, Value, Denying

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

Difficult, Image, Letting Go, Reality, Square, Squares

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

Thinking, Want, Way, Think, Live

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

Afraid, Apologize, Apologizing, Child, Children, Men

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son, Positively, Decided, Life

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

Afraid, Catholic, Dying, Family, Like, Years

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists. . . in the loved one, perfection.

Exists, Love, Perfection, Preoccupation, Suffer, Suffering

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

Belts, Gut, Hair, Hanging, Teeth, Tell

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Audience, Black, Expressing, Expressive, Hollywood, Impact

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Florida, Place, Racism, Running, Ten, Under

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Class, Father, Men, Poor, Possession, Race

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Chosen, Reflection, Use, Work

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Cost, Directors, Modest, Numbers, Satisfied, Shifted

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Father, Man, Men, Poor, Things

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

Black, People, Theater, Uncomfortable

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Be Kind, Father, Met, Mother, Women

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