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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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