Sidney Poitier Quotes On Acting Life And How He Wants To Be Remembered
The first Black actor to win an Academy Award, Poitier was beloved for playing leading men who were wise souls and love interests. As he starred in many films including To Sir With Love, A Raisin In The Sun, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Defiant Ones and Porgy and Bess, he paved the way for Black actors to follow in his footsteps. In 2009, when presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor to Poitier, President Obama said, “It’s been said that Sidney Poitier does not make movies, he makes milestones…Poitier not only entertained, but enlightened, shifting attitudes, broadening hearts, revealing the power of the silver screen to bring us closer together....