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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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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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 serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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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've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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 love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier
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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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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