I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

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.

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

...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

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