Art is an elastic sort of love.

...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

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

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

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.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.