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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.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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