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History passes the final judgment.

Sidney Poitier

History

Judgment

I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so.

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.

Sidney Poitier

People

Circumstance

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

Sidney Poitier

Life

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

Sidney Poitier

Being

Question

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

Sidney Poitier

People

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Sidney Poitier

Family

Life

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

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

Sidney Poitier

Ability

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

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.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.