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Josephine Baker

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.

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Josephine Baker

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.

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Josephine Baker

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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Josephine Baker

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the ‘Folies Bergere.’

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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

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Josephine Baker

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

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Josephine Baker

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

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Josephine Baker

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one’s very soul and body.

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Josephine Baker

All men can live together, if they wish to.

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Josephine Baker

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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Josephine Baker

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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Josephine Baker

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.

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