The country is going through a crisis and I've been thrown up as this kind of public figure because I'm the top Negro writer in the country-whatever that means. It's like Sidney Poitier being America's only Negro movie star. That's the country's fault, not ours. But I'm still trying to speak just for me, not for twenty million people.
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Sidney Poitier was a 20th-century American bahamian-american actor, filmmaker, diplomat. Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Read more on Wikipedia →