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.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

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

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?

...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

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