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.
GRACE JONESI 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.
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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.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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.
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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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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 like people who hide things.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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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.
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I’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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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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