Earth Quote by Josephine Baker

“Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.” quote by Josephine Baker — Download Open image

“Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.”

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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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Then all this earth shines like one house.

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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