top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more People quotes
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
Explore more quotes by Sidney Poitier
"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."
"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
bottom of page