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.
Sidney PoitierI was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
Sidney PoitierWe suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Sidney PoitierI was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier