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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

Grace Jones

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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Appearance Education Myself School
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
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Accident Myself Singer Thinking
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
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
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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Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
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
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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Emotional Myself Robot Sing
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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Day Interview Lose Myself Voice Work
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 don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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Myself Save Simplicity Sin
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

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