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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.

Grace Jones

If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
GRACE JONES

Angry Burst Discipline People Thinking Trouble
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 JONES

Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
GRACE JONES

Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
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.
GRACE JONES

Break Enough Modeling Rule Start
Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
GRACE JONES

Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
GRACE JONES

Children Perfection Yourself
I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
GRACE JONES

Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
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

Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
GRACE JONES

Feminine Myself Opening Thinking Vulnerable
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.
GRACE JONES

Known Live Myself Week
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONES

Athletics Brother Myself
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONES

Earlier Father Image Myself
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.
GRACE JONES

Fundamental Growing Quiet Thinking Yourself
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
GRACE JONES

Fantasy Modeling People Reality
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONES

Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
GRACE JONES

Believe Finding Live Quality Special

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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