Sidney Poitier Quotes

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• You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

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  Better Than You

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

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  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

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  Pace, Walks, Happens

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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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  Color, Saws, Humans

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• I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

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  Inspirational, Stars

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• I am the me I choose to be.

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  Life

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• We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

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  Struggle, Imperfection, Life Is

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• To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

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  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Inspirational

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

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  Persons

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• You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

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  Better Than You

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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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  Moving, People, Black

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• I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

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  Positive, Responsible, Happens

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

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  Children, Men, Apologizing

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• I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

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  Next Day, Next, Wanted

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• Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

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  Selfish, Insecure, Way

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• 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?

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  Children, Kids, Cutting

  Sidney Poitier (2009). “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Self, Flames, Trying

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• 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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  Energy, Done, Good Things

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• Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

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  Children, Father, Teaching

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• I defend myself by improving myself.

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  Improving

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• Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

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  Real, Exercise, Games

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• I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

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  Thinking, Want, Way

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Two, People

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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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  Careers, Deeds, Way

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Talking, Trying

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