A biography for Sidney Poitierhasn’t been written yet.
“My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.”
“To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.”
“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”
“I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.”
“If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.”
“I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.”
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
“There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.”
“Jackie Robinson is a true legend.”
“I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.”
“I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.”
“When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.”
“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”
“My autobiography was simply the story of my life.”