"I was the only Black person on the……" — Sidney Poitier
"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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88 Quotes by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier has 88 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted…
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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History passes the final judgment
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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the…
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I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and…
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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what…
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the…
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James A. Baldwin
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power…
— James A. Baldwin
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were…
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