Quotes by Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

…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

Color

Liberty

Promise

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

African American

Care

Dance

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.

People

Prejudice

Together

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Art

Art Is

Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Beautiful

Beauty

Luck

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Earth

Music

Sky

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.

Eye

Men

White Man

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

Brother

Evil

Hate

He was my cream, and I was his coffee – And when you poured us together, it was something.

Caffeine

Coffee

Together

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.

Believe

People

White

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African American

America

Army

Art

Art Is

Attitude

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Blessed

Blood

Blow

Breathless

Brother

Brotherhood

Caffeine

Care

Children

Christian

Cities

Clothes

Coffee

Color

Comeback

Country

Courage

Daily Life

Dance

Dancing

Democracy

Devil

Dies

Discrimination

Dream

Earth

Education

Ends

Equality

Evil

Exercise

Eye

Fire

France

Fun

Funeral

Gun

Half

Happiness

Hate

Heart

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Quotes by Josephine Baker

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.

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.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

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.

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

He was my cream, and I was his coffee – And when you poured us together, it was something.

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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