Josephine Baker Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975

Topics

FearEyesManCityMeBetter

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Joe Moore

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My optimism for life carried through my work.

John Dyer

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We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.

John Lewis

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I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Jeff Tweedy

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I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

Michael Michele

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I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

Jon Taffer

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I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Chris Stapleton

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I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for character work as an actor because you're fighting the cause or mourning the child or fighting the disease, etc.

Bonnie Bedelia

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Arthur Helps

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When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

Anthony Head

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India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

Peter Mayhew

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