Frases de Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier KBE é um ator, diretor, autor e diplomata bahamense estadunidense.

Poitier cresceu em Cat Island, nas Bahamas. Em 1963 fez história ao se tornar o primeiro ator negro da história a receber o prêmio Oscar de melhor ator principal por sua performance no drama Uma Voz nas Sombras em 1963. Em 2002 se tornou o primeiro artista negro a receber um Oscar honorário pelo conjunto da obra. É pai da também atriz Sydney Tamiia Poitier. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Fevereiro 1927
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Sidney Poitier: Frases em inglês

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

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

Fonte: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

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

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.”

"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.”

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

“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.”

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.
Fonte: The Measure of a Man (2000)