I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

...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

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

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

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

One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.