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SIDNEY POITIER Sidney ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN [18.212.102.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:41 GMT) PoitierMAN, ACTOR, ICON The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London ∫ 2004 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Set in Sabon and Castellar types by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goudsouzian, Aram. Sidney Poitier : man, actor, icon / by Aram Goudsouzian. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8078-2843-2 (alk. paper) 1. Poitier, Sidney. 2. Actors—United States—Biography. 3. African American actors—United States—Biography. I. Title. pn2287.p57g68 2004 791.43%028%092—dc22 2003019372 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 [18.212.102.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:41 GMT) In memory of Andy Colligan This page intentionally left blank [18.212.102.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:41 GMT) Along with the fight to desegregate the schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America; we must desegregate the minds of the American people. If we merely succeed in desegregating the school buildings, we may very well find that we have won the battle and lost the war. Integration begins the day after the minds of the American people are desegregated. john oliver killens The Black Man’s Burden (1965) Entertainment is not, as we often think, a full-scale flight from our problems, not a means of forgetting them completely, but rather a rearrangement of our problems into shapes which tame them, which disperse them to the margins of our attention. michael wood America in the Movies (1975) We’re all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. sidney poitier The Measure of a Man (2000) This page intentionally left blank ...