Sidney Poitier Quotes
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
Citations
Poitier, Sidney. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. HarperSanFrancisco, 2000, p. 118.
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Sidney Poitier KBE is a Bahamian-American retired actor, film director, activist, and ambassador. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor becoming the first black male and Bahamian actor to win that award. He is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, and the oldest living and earliest surviving Best Actor Academy Award winner. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.