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 JONESThat’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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.
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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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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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