French - Dancer | June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975
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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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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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.
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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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All men can live together, if they wish to.
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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.
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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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