Sidney Poitier Quotes
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
Sidney Poitier
Quotes to Explore
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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
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
Harry Bridges
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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
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
Larenz Tate
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen