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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
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My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
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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 like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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