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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
Actress
Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
Freedoms
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Women

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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.
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I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.
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