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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.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
Stage Actor
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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 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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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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 don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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