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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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I am the me I choose to be.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
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I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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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.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
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