Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I cannot be understood in three minutes.”

“I'll always be chasing you... Glory.”

“My autobiography was simply the story of my life.”

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

“I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.”

“If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.”

“My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.”

“I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.”

“I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.”

“I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.”