Josephine Baker Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• 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.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Paris, White

• When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Children, Home

• I have two loves: my country and Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Two, Paris

  "Women in France's Pantheon? I propose Josephine Baker" by Jessica Reed, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

• My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Race, Blood

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

  Josephine Baker

  Country, America, Devil

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