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To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
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
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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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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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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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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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One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.
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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 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 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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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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I have two loves: my country and Paris.
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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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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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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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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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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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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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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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Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
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