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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the impact of external perceptions and the search for self-identity beyond appearances.
Grace Jones expresses how her experience as a model, surrounded by flawless images of beauty, distorted her perception of reality. She emphasizes the importance of disconnecting from superficial reflections to reclaim a sense of true identity and reality, suggesting that constant exposure to idealized appearances can lead to a loss of self and authenticity.
In practice
In a speech about self-acceptance, one might reference this quote to illustrate the dangers of comparison to unrealistic beauty standards.
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
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