Josephine Baker Quotes

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• To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

  Josephine Baker

  Dream, Wake Up, Realising

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Mean, Equality, Men

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Courage, Thinking, Two

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• I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

  Josephine Baker

  Ends, Breathless, Dies

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  You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

  Josephine Baker

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "Hollywood Who's Who Marched With King in '63" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2013.

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• The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

  Josephine Baker

  Love, Heart, Long

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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

  Kings, Queens, Coffee

  "March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker". Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 1963.

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• You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

  Josephine Baker

  Powerful, School, Gun

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Paris, White

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Inspiration, White, Heaven

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• The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

  Josephine Baker

  Beauty, Thinking, Secret

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• Art is an elastic sort of love.

  Josephine Baker

  Art, Art Is

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• I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

  Josephine Baker

  Witty, Clothes, Naked

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  People, Together, Prejudice

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• 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

  Dance, African American, Care

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• 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

  Heart, Fire, Joy

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Art, Blessed, Ideas

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• 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

  Attitude, Blow, Humanity

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Music, Sky, Earth

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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.

  Josephine Baker

  Education, Brotherhood, Natural

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• God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

  Josephine Baker

  Brother, Hate, Evil

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• I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

  Josephine Baker

  Prayer, Believe, Heaven

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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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Luck

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• I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

  Josephine Baker

  Performing, Dies

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• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  Josephine Baker

  Land, Democracy, France

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