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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
Actor
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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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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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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
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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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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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Living consciously involves being genuine it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly it involves being in the moment.
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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 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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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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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 was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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