Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Sidney Poitier

Quote by Sidney Poitier

Author

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat. He was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963). Poitier broke racial barriers in Hollywood during the 1950s and 1960s, starring in groundbreaking films such as In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Known for his dignity and grace, he became a symbol of the civil rights movement. He also served as Bahamas' ambassador to Japan and UNESCO. In 2009, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. more

You May Also Like

“Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.”

PeopleWayFeelsActionTogetherNightWalksGreaterBuildingWindowInspiredExcitedApartmentEntityLitMy FutureFacadeFuture Life
Book:Take Me There
Create image

“Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.”

WorldMindRealityUniverseRoomsMetsDareEndlessRisingClimbsTowersDark TowerGunslingerStairwaysDark Tower SeriesNexus
Book:The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Create image

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”

IfsMayStatesMemoriesCitiesHairStonesBlindProphetFalsehoodWornOblivionMaidsSwerveUpbraidCharacterless
Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Create image

“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.”

MenFirstsLongTwoSometimesWould BeAbleSpiritCultureWhiteRocksBenefitsTwentiesSeriesSouthCompromisePerceiveThirtyNativeAgreementMutualNative AmericanWhite ManBeneficialGoodwillCoexistDakotaSouth DakotaTwo CulturesMutual Benefit
Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Create image