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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin It's by my character.
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