170 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

I’m going to quit writing.

Greed and cruelty are pretty widely distributed throughout humanity, as are their victims.

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.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that’s my dad. And he was a very good man.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself – not me, but black people – that were uncomfortable.

We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

John Cassavetes once gave me some advice that has proved invaluable... He said, ‘We’re good friends, but never, ever do an artistic favor for a friend. Loan friends money, be there for them in every other way, but don’t do them any artistic favors, because you’ve got to have one area of your life where there’s no room for compromise.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It’s everywhere.