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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. "
Grace Jones
Own
Climb
You
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" I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent. "
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" Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all. "
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Father
Saying
Team
" 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 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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Yellow
" 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. "
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Feel
Church
" 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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Thinking
Fun
Good
" 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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Nothing
Thought
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" My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate. "
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Time
" I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that? "
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Icons
Am
Diva
" This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'. "
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Character
Say
You
" 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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Women
Balance
Finding
" 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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Losing
Life
My Life
" 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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Music
Me
Depths
" 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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Girl
Old
School
" Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?' "
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See
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Black
" 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. "
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Play
Try
Silly
" There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church. "
Grace Jones
Club
Best
Church
" I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told. "
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Interesting
Rail
High
" Fear is fear of fear, I think. "
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Fear
Think
I Think
" It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one. "
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Woman
Give
Man
" I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things. "
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Lot
Like
Open
" Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. "
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Believe
Decisions
You
" If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline. "
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Angry
Anger
Discipline
" The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent. "
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You
Problem
Vision
" Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift. "
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Teacher
Experience
Gift
" I am an actress first, a singer second. "
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Second
I Am
Singer
" My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic. "
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Mother
Champion
Basketball
" 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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Stage
Scary
Childhood
" Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself. "
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You
Be Yourself
Life
" You can't expect your children to be perfect. "
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You
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