I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

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.

...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

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.