I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
GRACE JONESMy mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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