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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 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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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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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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.
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