Poitier’s memoir, Life Beyond Measure, now in paperback, is a series of letters to his great-granddaughter Ayele, taking her back to the moments that shaped him. His chapter on people of courage ends with his own father, Reginald Poitier.
“He was honest,” Poitier tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. “My father was the quintessential husband and dad.”
When Poitier was a teenager he left his native Bahamas for better opportunities in Miami. His father took him to the dock, gave him a lecture and then put $3 in his hand. “He said, ‘take care of yourself, son.’ And he turned me around to face the boat,” Poitier says.
Caught this one on the midday run and loved it. He has a wonderful voice. Listen to it all.
One of my absolutely favorite actors. This guy has class the way banks have money.
Do you mean to say he has more virtual class than real class? Or that he is running out of class and is forced to borrow class from people who in turn borrow class from who knows where?
Perhaps you could say he has class the way banks used to have money… 🙂