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“You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Happiness #Success #Perseverance
“We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Education #Brotherhood #Natural
“I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Attitude #Blow #Humanity
“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

#Mean #Equality #Men
“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

#Courage #Thinking #Two
“I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Prayer #Believe #Heaven
“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

#War #Army #Equality
“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”
-- Josephine Baker

#People #Together #Prejudice
“I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Paris #Insult
“Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Beauty #Beautiful #Luck
“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Love #Heart #Long
“I believe in prayer. It's the best...”
-- Josephine Baker

#Prayer #Believe #African American
“The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Beauty #Thinking #Secret
“God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Brother #Hate #Evil
“Art is an elastic sort of love.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Art #Art Is
“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Dance #African American #Care
“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

#Queens #Kings #Coffee
“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Witty #Clothes #Naked
“He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Coffee #Together #Cream
“I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Ends #Breathless
“One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Country #Paris #White
“The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.”
-- Josephine Baker

#White #Imagination
“Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Savages #Daily Life #Stage
“I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Country #America #Devil
“Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?”
-- Josephine Baker

#Heart #Fire #Joy
“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

#Thinking #Paris #People
“...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower”
-- Josephine Baker

#Color #Promise #Liberty
“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

#Brother #Hate #Believe
“I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Land #Democracy #France
“Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.”
-- Josephine Baker

#Eye #Men #Years

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