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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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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 learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
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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.
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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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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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