"The great disease of mankind is ignorance. With knowledge you can grasp tight a belief: that you can be better, that the world can be better. With that, you can claim hope. Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind. We hope for a little luck, we hope for a better tomorrow, we hope — although it is an impossible hope — to somehow get out of this world alive. And if we can't and don't, then it is enough to rejoice in our short time here and to remember how much we loved the view." —Sidney Poitier
Poitier, who died last Thursday at the age of 94, was the first Black person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador.
Read more of his words: https://w.wiki/4fNF
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