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" 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

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" So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. "

Sidney Poitier

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" I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. "

" History passes the final judgment. "

" I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. "

" I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being. "

" I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. "

" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "

" So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. "

" I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. "

" So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to quit writing. "

" The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. "

" 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. "

" I'm a good person. "

" I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. "

" If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. "

" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "

" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

" There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. "

" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "

" I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her. "

Sidney Poitier

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Mother

" I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. "

" My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name. "