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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.

Grace Jones

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 JONES

Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES

Depression Rock 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
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 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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
GRACE JONES

Myself Relationship Woman
Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
GRACE JONES

Compromise Creation Oneself Weapon
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
GRACE JONES

Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
GRACE JONES

Known Live Myself Week
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONES

Earlier Father Image Myself
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONES

Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONES

Animal Goodness Yourself
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
GRACE JONES

Fundamental Growing Quiet Thinking Yourself
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
I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
GRACE JONES

Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong

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