Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE, is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 February 1927
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
hopeless hopelessness domination
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
ive-learned outlets
I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
better-than-you
You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
powerful two people
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.
self flames trying
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.
reflection use chosen
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
liars use shapes
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
father men poor
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
positive responsible happens
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
years catholic dying
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.
letting-go reality self
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.
determined randomness seems
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
love perfection suffering
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
fashion rebellion form
Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.