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The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
Josephine Baker
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Josephine Baker
Age: 68 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 3
Died: 1975
Died: April 12
Actor
Dancer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Model
Singer
Street Artist
Vedette
St. Louis
Missouri
Freda Josephine McDonald
Joséphine Baker
Blacks
Imagination
Sure
White
Comes
Something
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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 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.'
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.
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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
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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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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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I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.
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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.
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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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Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
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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.
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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.
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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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To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
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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
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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I have two loves: my country and Paris.
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