You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

- Sidney Poitier

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

- Sidney Poitier

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

- Sidney Poitier

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

- Sidney Poitier

I am the me I choose to be.

- Sidney Poitier

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

- Sidney Poitier

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

- Sidney Poitier

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

- Sidney Poitier

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

- Sidney Poitier