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Meet Sidney Poitier's Dinner Guests
Oprah's Book Club  |  January 01, 2006
Sidney Poitier's book helped Brian escape his racist upbringing.


Brian is a Kentucky dentist who says watching Sidney Poitier on television as a child opened his eyes to see beyond color. "Mr. Poitier was one of the first men of color I had seen that threw a wrench into the information that I was being fed by my family and some of society," Brian says.
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