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

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

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

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

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

...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

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.