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I have two loves: my country and Paris.
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
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St. Louis
Missouri
Freda Josephine McDonald
Joséphine Baker
Paris
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To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
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I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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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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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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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 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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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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...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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Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
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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.
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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.
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