'I felt very much as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.' Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier has died at 94. Here are excepts of Poitier in his own words through the years.
“OK listen, you think I’m so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I’m not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.” — From his memoir.
“It’s a choice, a clear choice. If the fabric of the society were different, I would scream to high heaven to play villains and to deal with different images of Negro life that would be more dimensional. But I’ll be damned if I do that at this stage of the game.” — On playing heroic, altruistic characters, from a 1967 interview.
“In the original script, I looked at him with great disdain and, wrapped in my strong ideals, walked out,” he wrote. “That could have happened with another actor playing the part, but it couldn’t happen with me.” — On returning a white man’s slap in 1967′s “In the Heat of the Night,” from his memoir.“I was happy for me, but I was also happy for the ‘folks.’ We Black people had done it. We were capable.
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