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I am the me I choose to be.

Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
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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 was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
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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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