"...I remember my father coming into the house one day and picking up an enamel plate. As he put it behind his back, he said, ‘I’m going to show you something, and I’m going to show it to you only once. Are you ready?’ And then he brought the plate from behind his back. On it were hundreds of tiny fishes. Then he moved the plate behind his back again, and they were gone..."

Sidney Poitier
Measure of a Man:
A spiritual autobiography