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Sidney Poitier Quotes

American - Actor | February 20, 1924 -

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Romantic Action Burden Intellectual

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

More Satisfied Return Number Modest

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Business Vision Me Someone Go Film

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

Good Father Man Good Man Farmer She

I'm a good person.

Good Good Person Person

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Racism Me Never Florida Adjust Been

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.

Life Simple Silence People Me Mom

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.

Nature Mother God Best Me Gift

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Life Racism Enough Race Never See

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

Good Beginning World Understanding

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.

Racism People Black Miami Place Run

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