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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
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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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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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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 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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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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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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I am the me I choose to be.
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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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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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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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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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