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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.

Grace Jones

We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
GRACE JONES

Mistake Myself People Perfection
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONES

Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Accident Myself Singer Thinking
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.
GRACE JONES

Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Education Myself School
I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
GRACE JONES

Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
GRACE JONES

Home Life Mirror Modeling Quit
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
GRACE JONES

Fantasy Modeling People Reality
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONES

Character Different Hard Personality Strong Yourself
I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
GRACE JONES

Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
GRACE JONES

Celebration Dance God Human Music
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Face Myself Skin
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONES

Growth Myself Strict
I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
GRACE JONES

Day Energy Morning Sleep
Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
GRACE JONES

Acceptance Believe Complaint Decision
Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
GRACE JONES

Head Injection Moments Myself Soul Throat

I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.

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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.

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