03.03.07
The Measure of a Man
I found the following writing from Sidney Poiter’s book, The Measure of a Man, very good.
Quote from a woman he knew named Louise on page 78:
“We’re going to have to decide ourselves what we are and what we’re not. Create our own image of ourselves. And nurture it and feed it till it can stand on its own.”
The author’s words on page 90:
“Balance is what he was looking for, but he hadn’t yet learned its name. In time, he will come to know it as a state of being. It can only be found at a place that is widely believed not to exist. Truth is that there is a place of space that does exist between two opposites everywhere, and somewhere therein dwells a point at which balance can be found.”
