"The white imagination is sure something when it……" — Josephine Baker
"The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks."
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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 Blacks Quotes
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks.…
— Steven Biko
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and…
— Jeff Sessions
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people…
— Steven Biko
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not…
— Leontyne Price
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