Pam Grier
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.Collection: Relationship
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.Collection: Beauty
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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.
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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.
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.
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.
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
I love science fiction.
I like to do all kinds of films.
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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.
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
I love the hip-hop nation.
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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.
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.
Well who's black and what is a black person?
I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
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.Collection: Struggle
Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.Collection: People
My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.Collection: Passion
Out of necessity comes genius.Collection: Genius
I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.Collection: Children
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.Collection: Hate
Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!Collection: Grandmother
I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have.Collection: Beautiful
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.Collection: Men
If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.Collection: Hurt
Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people in one minute, and they don't call it "white exploitation." They win awards and get into all the magazines. But if black people do it, suddenly it's different than if a white person does it. People respond differently because people come from different places.Collection: Winning
Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.Collection: Beautiful
Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.Collection: Sometimes
I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.Collection: Abuse
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.Collection: Art