Sidney Poitier Quotes

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

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• I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Balance

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Power
  • Someone
  • Admire

• Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Distance
  • Resent

• Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Think
  • Know
  • Act

• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Important
  • Language
  • Word

• Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Women
  • Burden

• People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Issues
  • Dialogue
  • Racial

• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Political
  • Challenge
  • Find

• That which is priceless has no cost.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Cost
  • Priceless

• The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Trying
  • Hotel
  • Nest

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

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

  

  Sidney Poitier
  • Racial
  • Everywhere
  • Domination