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" I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. "

Sidney Poitier

People

Miami

Black

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" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

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" My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. "

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