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