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Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ist ein bahamaisch-US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Regisseur. Er war der erste afroamerikanische Schauspieler, der für eine Hauptrolle mit einem Oscar ausgezeichnet wurde.

✵ 20. Februar 1927
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“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”

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Sidney Poitier buch The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Quelle: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“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.”

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Sidney Poitier buch The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Quelle: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“The older we get the less afraid we are.”

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From an print interview with AARP The Magazine (September/October 2008)

“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.”

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"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

“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.”

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"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

“The great disease of mankind is ignorance.
With knowledge you can grasp tight a belief: that you can be better, that the world can be better. With that, you can claim hope.
Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind. We hope for a little luck, we hope for a better tomorrow, we hope — although it is an impossible hope — to somehow get out of this world alive.
And if we can't and don't, then it is enough to rejoice in our short time here and to remember how much we loved the view.”

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Quelle: Life Beyond Measure (2008), twenty-third letter — The World I Leave You, p. 273

“Compassion for other human beings has to extend to the society that’s been grinding the powerless under its heel. The more civilized the society becomes, the more humane it becomes; the more it can see its own humanity, the more it sees the ways in which its humanity has been behaving inhumanly. This injustice of the world inspires a rage so intense that to express it fully would require homicidal action; it’s self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage. Simply put, 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.”

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Variante: I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger; it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage — self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage — and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
Quelle: The Measure of a Man (2000)

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