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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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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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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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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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You can get hurt at any time.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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 family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
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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