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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.

Grace Jones

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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Break Enough Modeling Rule Start
Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Acceptance Believe Complaint Decision
I don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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Absolute Myself Reality
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Myself Serious
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
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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Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
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.
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Day Energy Morning Sleep
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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Emotional Myself Robot Sing
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
GRACE JONES

Different Oneself Time
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
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.
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Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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Limitation Myself Pride Style Thinking
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
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.
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Fundamental Growing Quiet Thinking Yourself
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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Earlier Father Image Myself

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 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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