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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

Grace Jones

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
GRACE JONES

Energy Man Philosophy Sexuality Yourself
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Hate Prescription Yourself
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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Attraction Fake Woman
I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Myself Relationship Woman
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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Earlier Father Image Myself
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Honesty Life Load Myself People Portray
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Appearance Face Myself Skin
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
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.’
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Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
GRACE JONES

Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
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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Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
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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Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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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Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Fantasy Modeling People Reality
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

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

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