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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
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Josephine Baker
Age: 68 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 3
Died: 1975
Died: April 12
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Street Artist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Freda Josephine McDonald
Joséphine Baker
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To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
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I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
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He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.
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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.
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The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.
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I have two loves: my country and Paris.
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The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
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I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.
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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.
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...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
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I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
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I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.
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Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
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You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
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Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
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