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One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.
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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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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...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 like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
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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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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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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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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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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
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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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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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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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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 white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
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