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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES

Depression Rock Yourself
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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Conservative Hairs Orthodox Ourselves Pain Struggle
I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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Feminine Myself Thinking Woman
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
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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Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
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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Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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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Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
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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Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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Impatience Myself People Terrible
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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Character Different Hard Personality Strong Yourself
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
That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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Coffee Talk Wine
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
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
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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Known Live Myself Week

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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