Grace Jones

Model

1948-05-19

Quotes by Grace Jones

• 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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• 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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• You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.

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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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• Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

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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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• Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

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• Women 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.

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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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