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The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
— Josephine Baker
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
— Josephine Baker
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.
— Josephine Baker
Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.
— Josephine Baker
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -
And when you poured us together, it was something. — Josephine Baker
And when you poured us together, it was something. — Josephine Baker
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
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
— Josephine Baker
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
— Josephine Baker
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
— Josephine Baker
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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.
— Josephine Baker
The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.
— Josephine Baker
Art is an elastic sort of love.
— Josephine Baker
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
— Josephine Baker
I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.
— Josephine Baker
One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.
— Josephine Baker
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
— Josephine Baker
I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.
— Josephine Baker
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
— Josephine Baker
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
— Josephine Baker
I believe in prayer. It's the best ...
— Josephine Baker
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
— Josephine Baker
Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
— Josephine Baker
I have two loves: my country and Paris.
— Josephine Baker
I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
— Josephine Baker
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
— Josephine Baker
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
— Josephine Baker
I shall dance all my life ... I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
— Josephine Baker
To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
— Josephine Baker
All men can live together, if they wish to.
— Josephine Baker
Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest ... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
— Josephine Baker
The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
— Josephine Baker