Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE, is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 February 1927
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
powerful two people
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
positive responsible happens
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
hopeless hopelessness domination
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
self flames trying
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
done energy good-things
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
better-than-you
You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
children kids cutting
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
careers deeds way
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.
mother two months
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
struggle imperfection life-is
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
thinking talking trying
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
next-day next wanted
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
inspirational stars
I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
color saws humans
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.