Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I'm not a library.”

“I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.”

“If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.”

“The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.”

“I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.”

“I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.”

“I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.”

“Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.”

“I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.”

“I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.”