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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

Grace Jones

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.
GRACE JONES

Known Live Myself Week
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

Appearance Man Modeling Myself Start
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.
GRACE JONES

Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONES

Absolute Myself Reality
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONES

Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
GRACE JONES

Caught Cycle Quite Yourself
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 JONES

Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONES

Athletics Brother Myself
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONES

Design Myself Start
There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
GRACE JONES

Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
GRACE JONES

Bling Hide
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONES

Emotional Myself Robot Sing
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.
GRACE JONES

Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Myself Serious
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 JONES

Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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 JONES

Feminine Myself Opening Thinking Vulnerable

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

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