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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

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
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I tell actresses, If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are. It's a business, and sex sells.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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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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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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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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