Josephine Baker Quotes

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

Josephine Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

Joan Armatrading

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My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

John Darnielle

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I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Maya Rudolph

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The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they'll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.

John Matuszak

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My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.

Max von Essen

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I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

Ana Navarro

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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

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You are either going forward or you are not.

Mitchell Reiss

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It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

Doug Baldwin

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Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Dee Dee Myers

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