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I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.
Sidney Poitier
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.
Sidney Poitier
That's how my career started. Every one of those pictures... came from filmmakers who had to make a comment that racism is wrong.
Sidney Poitier
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
Sidney Poitier
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.
Sidney Poitier
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier
The great disease of mankind is ignorance. With knowledge you can grasp tight a belief: that you can be better, that the world can be better. With that, you can claim hope. Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind. We hope for a little luck, we hope for a better tomorrow, we hope - although it is an impossible hope - to somehow get out of this world alive. And if we can't and don't, then it is enough to rejoice in our short time here and to remember how much we loved the view.
Sidney Poitier
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Sidney Poitier
I am the me I choose to be.
Sidney Poitier
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.
Sidney Poitier
Compassion for other human beings has to extend to the society that's been grinding the powerless under its heel. The more civilized the society becomes, the more humane it becomes; the more it can see its own humanity, the more it sees the ways in which its humanity has been behaving inhumanly. This injustice of the world inspires a rage so intense that to express it fully would require homicidal action; it's self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage. Simply put, I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
Sidney Poitier
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
Sidney Poitier
I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.
Sidney Poitier
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
Sidney Poitier
History passes the final judgment.
Sidney Poitier
Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
Sidney Poitier
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier
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