I don’t like people who hide things.
GRACE JONESWomen and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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 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 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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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