I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONESI’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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