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" For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien. "

Grace Jones

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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. "

" Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. "

" Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul. "

" I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents. "

" Fear is fear of fear, I think. "

" 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. "

" I don't like people who hide things. "

Grace Jones

Things

People

" I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary. "

" I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child. "

" I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman. "

" We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults. "

" I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent. "

" I don't party now, and nobody really knows how to party with me anymore. So I stay in a lot. I really am a home person. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person. "

" My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic. "

" I like conflicts. I love competition. I like discovering things for myself. It's a childlike characteristic, actually. But that gives you a certain amount of power, and people are intimidated by that. "

" I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the community and having to obey orders blindly. I felt that everyone was growing up in the world, except me. This is probably one of the reasons why I had such a rebellious attitude towards any form of authority. "

" I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible. "

" 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

Know

Door

" You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters. "

" 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. "

" People always like to make me seem taller than I am. "

Grace Jones

Seem

People

" Yelling between people in love is normal. "

" My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image. "

" I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone. "

" 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. "

" I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything! "

" I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. "