Josephine Baker Quotes

"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."
-Josephine Baker

"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."
-Josephine Baker

"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest . . . beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."
-Josephine Baker

"It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?"
-Josephine Baker

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven."
-Josephine Baker in Prayer quotes.

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

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

". . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone."
-Josephine Baker