Top 70 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

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

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I'm not a library.

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

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I get offered work these days.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

History passes the final judgment.

I'm going to quit writing.