Quotes by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

A person doesn’t have to change who he is to become better.

Persons

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

Compromise

Nature

Numbers

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

Cost

Directors

Numbers

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

Character

Home

Journey

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Dad

Integrity

Men

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.

Belts

Hair

Teeth

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Behavior

Despise

Humans

I am the me I choose to be.

Life

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

Florida

Racism

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

Dad

Father Son

Fathers Day

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After Death

America

Anxious

Apologizing

Autobiography

Be Kind

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Belts

Black

Body

Careers

Catholic

Character

Chasing

Children

Compromise

Cost

Country

Creating

Dad

Demand

Despise

Determined

Differences

Difficult

Directors

Done

Dying

Easy

Eight

Energy

Expectations

Fans

Father

Father Son

Fathers Day

Florida

Force

Glory

Good Things

Growth

Hair

Hollywood

Home

Honesty

Humans

I've Learned

Impact

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Quotes by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

A person doesn’t have to change who he is to become better.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

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

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

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.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

I am the me I choose to be.

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

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

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