When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or model might be in her future...
The bottom line is sometimes I actually have to teach myself not to care. I can't care because most of the time I can't control what comes out of my mouth...
Usually when someone asks what I am, I say I'm halfrican. You know, my father's black, my mother's white, and when I was younger, to me that was the way it was supposed to be...
And I didn't think that I was going to get pregnant. It just happened. [Laughs] It was just like - I just started my life. I just started to go to school. I just started working...
Okay, watch. Here's a 20-penny spike, 50-cent hammer and a no sense head. I'm going to drive this spike in my head. Watch. [Sound of hammer hitting spike.] You can see...