65 Quotes by Josephine Baker

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

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

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

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.

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

I was learning the importance of names – having them, making them – but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

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?

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.