I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONESModels are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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 skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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