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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.

Grace Jones

I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
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
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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Compromise Creation Oneself Weapon
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
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
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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Known Live Myself Week
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
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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Limitation Myself Pride Style Thinking
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
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Bling Hide
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Children Myself Positive Thinking

When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.

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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.

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