Josephine Baker

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I…

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

All men can live together, if they wish to.

— Josephine Baker

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just…

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

— Josephine Baker

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be…

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently…

— Josephine Baker

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

— Josephine Baker

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

— Josephine Baker

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

— Josephine Baker

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

— Josephine Baker

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love…

— Josephine Baker

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

— Josephine Baker

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the…

— Josephine Baker

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are…

— Josephine Baker

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes…

— Josephine Baker

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

— Josephine Baker

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on…

— Josephine Baker