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 never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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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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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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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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 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 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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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