00:01Il mondo che ho conosciuto era quasi semplice.
00:04Non c'erano che c'era una cosa che c'era elettricitÃ
00:06o che l'acqua può arrivare in casa con un piatto.
00:10Non c'erano cosa mi sembrava.
00:12Non c'erano cosa che era un mirror.
00:16Quando cresci in una comunitÃ
00:18dove tutto ciò che conosco è potente e buono,
00:21e che è black,
00:22non c'erano il concepto di race
00:24che defini Saint-Duportier.
00:27I left the Bahamas with this sense of myself
00:29and from the time I got off the boat
00:31America began to say to me,
00:34you're not who you think you are.
00:37There was a habit in Hollywood
00:39of utilizing blacks in the most disrespectful ways.
00:43And I said, I cannot play that.
00:45I don't think Sidney ever played a subservient part.
00:49Never plucked his eyes, never ducked his head.
00:52They call me Mr. Tibbs.
00:54I'm a black man, a white girl.
00:57I'm a black man, a white girl.
00:59It was the first time I had seen a black man assert his power.
01:03I'm a giant and I'm surrounded by ants.
01:06I wanted to marry Sidney Poitier.
01:08He was like, wow.
01:09Movie stars should be, wow.
01:12Biggest box office draw, black man, 1967-68.
01:17And the whole country is spiraling around him.
01:24We're hanging together by a few cultural threads.
01:27And Sidney Poitier is one of those cultural threads.
01:31The winner is Sidney Poitier.
01:34It's not easy being the first.
01:36When you have to represent the entire race.
01:42He had big shoulders. He was given big shoulders.
01:45But he had to carry a lot of weight.
01:46If there were equality of opportunity in this business,
01:50there'd be 15 Sidney Poitiers and 10 or 12 Belafontes.
01:53But there is enough.
01:54Or maybe the other way around.
01:55Watch it, watch it, watch it.
01:58He's gonna put black people in positions
02:00where they can have a career behind the camera.
02:03He came to this earth to move it, to change it, to shake it.
02:08You think of yourself as a colored man.
02:11I think of myself as a man.
02:15That's the summary of him.
02:17I love him so much.
02:19My life has had more than a few wonderful, indescribable turns.
02:30And I have lived them.
02:32Oh, mercy, mercy me.
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