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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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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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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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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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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.
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I am the me I choose to be.
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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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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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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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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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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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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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