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Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE je americký herec, producent a režisér. Jedná se o prvního herce-muže černé pleti, který se stal držitelem Oscara i Zlatého Glóbu a stal se rovnocennou filmovou hvězdou hercům bílé pleti.

Pochází z velmi chudé a početné zemědělské rodiny amerického jihu, vyrůstal na Bahamách. Po ukončení střední školy pracoval v různých dělnických profesích. Během 2. světové války sloužil v americké armádě jako psychoterapeut. Herectví se začal profesionálně věnovat po skončení války v roce 1945, kdy začal vystupovat v newyorském černošském divadle Negro Theatre. U filmu debutoval v roce 1949 ve válečném dokumentárním filmu.

Jednalo se vždy o herce, který ztělesňoval typ černého intelektuála, charakterního, vytrvalého, inteligentního, ušlechtilého a smělého muže.

V roce 1963 obdržel Oscara za roli nádeníka ve snímku Polní lilie. Českým divákům je znám i detektivní příběh V žáru noci, kde si zahrál postavu policejního důstojníka. Legendárním snímkem se stal i film Hádej, kdo přijde na večeři, kde si zahrál společně se Spencerem Tracym a Katharine Hepburnovou.

Od počátku 70. let působí také jako režisér a producent ve firmě First Artists Productions, kterou založil společně s Barbrou Streisandovou a Paulem Newmanem. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. únor 1927
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„Byla to země nedotčená kapitalismem. Žili jsme na zemi - nosili plátěné pytle. Byla to předindustriální doba. (o svém dětství na Bahamách)“

Sidney Poitier

Originál: (en) It was a land unspoiled by capitalism. We lived off the land - wore cloth sacks. It was the pre-industrial age.
Zdroj: [Wazir, Burhan, The leading man, theguardian, 2000-10-208, 2018-06-05, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/oct/08/features.burhanwazir]

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Sidney Poitier: Citáty anglicky

“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”

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Sidney Poitier kniha The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Zdroj: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.”

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Sidney Poitier kniha The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Zdroj: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“The older we get the less afraid we are.”

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From an print interview with AARP The Magazine (September/October 2008)

“I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.”

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"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

“If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.”

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"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

“The great disease of mankind is ignorance.
With knowledge you can grasp tight a belief: that you can be better, that the world can be better. With that, you can claim hope.
Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind. We hope for a little luck, we hope for a better tomorrow, we hope — although it is an impossible hope — to somehow get out of this world alive.
And if we can't and don't, then it is enough to rejoice in our short time here and to remember how much we loved the view.”

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Zdroj: Life Beyond Measure (2008), twenty-third letter — The World I Leave You, p. 273

“Compassion for other human beings has to extend to the society that’s been grinding the powerless under its heel. The more civilized the society becomes, the more humane it becomes; the more it can see its own humanity, the more it sees the ways in which its humanity has been behaving inhumanly. This injustice of the world inspires a rage so intense that to express it fully would require homicidal action; it’s self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage. Simply put, I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”

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Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: The Measure of a Man (2000)