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 JONESMost 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.
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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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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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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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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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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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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