65 Quotes by Josephine Baker

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

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.

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

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?

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

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.