What was Sidney Poitier’s famous quote?

What was Sidney Poitier’s famous quote?

“You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were,” he wrote in The Measure of a Man. He added, “A person doesn’t have to change who he is to become better.”

When you go for a walk with someone something happens?

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

Do what you have to do in order to do what you want to do?

“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.” “You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.”

What did James Baldwin say about Sidney Poitier?

While critical of many of Poitier’s films, Baldwin exhibited an extraordinary appreciation of the actor’s eminence and talent. In his rebuke of Blackboard Jungle, for instance, Baldwin wrote that though he loathed the film, he thought that “Sidney was beautiful, vivid, and truthful in it.