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Pam Grier [1949-0] American

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Actress

Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier is an American actress. She became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba Baby.

Beauty, Family

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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.	Beauty, Family	101
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.		102
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.		103
Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.		104
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.		105
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.		106
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.		107
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.		108
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.		109
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.		110
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.		111
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.		112
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.		113
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.		114
I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.		115
I love the hip-hop nation.		116
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.		117
I am really blessed and very grateful for it.		118
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.		119
I love science fiction.		120
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.		121
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.		122
I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.		123
Well who's black and what is a black person?		124
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.		125
It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.		126
It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.		201
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.		202
I like to do all kinds of films.		203
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.		204
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.		205
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.		206
Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.		207
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.		208
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.		209

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