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

Grace Jones

My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONES

Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONES

Attraction Fake Woman
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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONES

Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
GRACE JONES

Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Prescription Yourself
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’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.
GRACE JONES

Impatience Myself People Terrible
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
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
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
GRACE JONES

Bling Hide
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONES

Absolute Myself Reality
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’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
GRACE JONES

Myself Save Simplicity Sin
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
GRACE JONES

Children Perfection Yourself

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