Sidney Poitier

"I am what I have become."

- Sidney Poitier

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

- Sidney Poitier

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

- Sidney Poitier

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

- Sidney Poitier

"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

- Sidney Poitier

"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?"

- Sidney Poitier

"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."

- Sidney Poitier