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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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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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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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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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 you're not to be better than you were.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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I defend myself by improving myself.
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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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
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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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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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