To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESTo be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESI’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.
GRACE JONESMy father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONESMy husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONESI’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONESI don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONESI only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESI 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 JONESI believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
GRACE JONESI am an actress first, a singer second.
GRACE JONESWhen 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 JONESI 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 JONESI was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONESYou can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
GRACE JONESI’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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