What a loss and these two movies were all-time favorites. I looked up one day while eating lunch in a Madison Avenue cafe and discovered I was sitting next to him and his wife. I managed to refrain from asking for an autograph (big faux pas in NYC) but he was patient with my relentless stares. 🙂
Class act. Loved his work. Miss him.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
He represented the ultimate ideal of racial compatibility. I especially remember one of his greatest scenes in Guess when he told his father who was strenuously objecting to his marriage to a Caucasian woman:
“Dad, I love you. But you consider yourself a black man. I consider myself a man.”
Oh boy, the tears came when I first saw this!
This was a message so badly needed today: Dignity in the face of it all.
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Sorry I had problems publishing this but I do want to add my favorite line in Poitier’s movie Guess. After having a heavy conversation with his father who was vehemently opposed to his marriage to a Caucasian woman, Sidney’s character responds:
“Dad, I love you. But you define yourself as a black man. I define myself as a man.”
There is a whole lot of wisdom here that we in the times of Antifa and BLM should simply inhale!
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Great post, Liz. Denzel Washington seems to be a younger version of Sidney Poitier.
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His Bahamian background brought a certain touch giving all his work a dignity that has yet to be replicated.
Thanks for commenting!
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