Top 70 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

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

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

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.