Sidney

00:00:27 I was not expected to live.

00:06:18 And I got to the address, and I walked up to the front door,

00:12:21 And there I was in Harlem.

00:16:51 Norman Brokenshire was a newsreader.

00:21:03 He was also a garbageman at the time.

00:24:50 And I came from a poor, uneducated family in the Caribbean.

00:29:18 if my mother is the mother that I think she was.

00:33:46 You said no.

00:38:22 Defiant Ones was the movie

00:42:31 going to your classes.

00:47:02 We were really a Southern Black movement

00:51:42 The role is first offered to Harry Belafonte.

00:56:01 I remember distinctly feeling

01:01:10 that a phone call to the Justice Department

01:06:00 say last night about midnight?

01:10:40 of, uh, kinda proving that Black people were human.

01:15:02 for playing the noble Negro who fulfills white liberal fantasies.

01:19:47 Two very opinionated people.

01:24:15 And he sat me down in a corner at that party, at my 42nd birthday,

01:28:28 It was like, "No, this is my family."

01:32:35 All the films he got the opportunity... films that would...

01:36:25 It was a packed house, so I stood in the back watching the reaction.

01:40:52 Sidney Poitier walked into a small theater in Harlem.

01:45:42 And when I die, I will not be afraid of having lived.