Sidney Poitier Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

  Sidney Poitier

  Florida, Racism

• Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

  Sidney Poitier

  Race, Racism, Painful

• I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

  Sidney Poitier

  Running, Florida, Racism

• I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

  Sidney Poitier

  Florida, Racism

• I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Race, Views, Racism

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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