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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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Miami
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I am the me I choose to be.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
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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 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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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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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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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