"My people have a country of their own……" — 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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45 Quotes by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker has 45 quotes on this site.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other…
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so…
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing,…
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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