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

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower

Art is an elastic sort of love.

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

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.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

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