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 JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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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 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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