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View Plans“ ”I am not suggesting that you devote your life to being a missionary. You are entitled to your share of love and joy and leisure and pure happiness. But within the warm periphery of your life, there should be room for passionate involvement. As the Italian poet Antonio Porchia put it: “In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” Racial,
About Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (20 February 1927 - 7 January 2022) was an Academy award-winning Bahamian-American actor, director, author and diplomat.
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(Carl Sagan has said, “To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”) As
"But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came"
"I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.