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Josephine Baker Quotes

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All men can live together, if they wish to  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up  (Josephine Baker Quotes) One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I believe in prayer. It’s the best...  (Josephine Baker Quotes) You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely  (Josephine Baker Quotes) We’ve got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what’s the point of waging war on Hitler?  (Josephine Baker Quotes) When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Let us stop saying ‘white Americans’ and ‘colored Americans,’ let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven  (Josephine Baker Quotes) The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the ‘Folies Bergere.’  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one’s very soul and body  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I’m not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing  (Josephine Baker Quotes) What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Art is an elastic sort of love  (Josephine Baker Quotes) The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts  (Josephine Baker Quotes) The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks  (Josephine Baker Quotes) I believe in prayer. It’s the best  (Josephine Baker Quotes) Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone  (Josephine Baker Quotes)
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