Best 14 quotes of Josephine Baker on MyQuotes

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.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

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

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

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.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

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

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.