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Sidney Poitier Quotes

1927–2022 United States

Sidney Poitier (20 February 1927 - 7 January 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

The Measure of a Man (2000)

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.

The Measure of a Man (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sidney Poitier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.