Tag: Josephine Baker
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
Josephine Baker
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All men can live together, if they wish to.
Josephine Baker
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I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.
Josephine Baker
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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.
Josephine Baker
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I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.
Josephine Baker
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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.’
Josephine Baker
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The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.
Josephine Baker
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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.
Josephine 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.
Josephine Baker