Sidney Poitier Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”
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“I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.”
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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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“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
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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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“There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.”
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“Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.”
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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 had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.”
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“I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”
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“I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.”
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“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
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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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“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
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“A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.”
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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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“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”
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“But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.”
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“Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”
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“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”
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“Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.”
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“We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.”
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“Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.”
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“Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.”
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“But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.”
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“Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.”
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“My autobiography was simply the story of my life.”
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“I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.”
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“The journey has been incredible from its beginning.”
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