diff --git a/pillarsdk/utils.py b/pillarsdk/utils.py
index d7d36a9..888f1a5 100644
--- a/pillarsdk/utils.py
+++ b/pillarsdk/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import json
 import re
-import six
+import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 
 try:
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from urllib import urlencode
 
+# from six:
+PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
+if PY3:
+    text_type = str
+else:
+    text_type = unicode
+
 
 def join_url(url, *paths):
     """
@@ -38,7 +45,7 @@ def join_url_params(url, params):
     def convert_to_string(param):
         if isinstance(param, dict):
             return json.dumps(param)
-        if isinstance(param, six.text_type):
+        if isinstance(param, text_type):
             return param.encode('utf-8')
         return param
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 13d80f1..a22f1ed 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 pyOpenSSL==0.15.1
 requests==2.9.1
-six==1.10.0
 
 tox>=2.3.1
 wheel>=0.29.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3de5c26..225df33 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ setup(
     license='BSD License',
     description='The Pillar REST SDK provides Python APIs to communicate to the Pillar webservices.',
     long_description=long_description,
-    install_requires=['requests>=1.0.0', 'six>=1.0.0', 'pyopenssl>=0.14'],
+    install_requires=['requests>=1.0.0', 'pyopenssl>=0.14'],
     test_requires=['tox', 'coverage', 'pytest', 'pytest-xdist', 'pytest-cov'],
     classifiers=[
         'Intended Audience :: Developers',