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 JONESI love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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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 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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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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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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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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