Sidney Poitier Thoughts

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.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I" ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

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

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

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

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

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

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