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" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "
Sidney Poitier
Race
Man
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" 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. "
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" I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters. "
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" Jackie Robinson is a true legend. "
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" I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "
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" I don't very often read novels. "
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" I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. "
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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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" But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. "
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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. "
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People
Miami
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" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "
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Sometimes
Take
" I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. "
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Father
Poor
Things
" 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. "
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Just
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" I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. "
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Explore
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" 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. "
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Black
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" I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. "
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Before
Better
Day
" If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. "
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Done
Few
" 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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Tell
Teeth
" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "
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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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Month
" I'm not a library. "
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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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" In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. "
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