{"id":186,"date":"2006-06-03T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-06-03T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T12:17:00","slug":"josephine-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/josephine-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Baker…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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… would be 100 today! Here are a few of her lines, from her “official website<\/a>:”<\/p>\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n

“The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.”<\/p>\n

“… 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.”<\/p>\n

“I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.”<\/p>\n

“Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.”<\/p>\n

“I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.”<\/p>\n

“Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.”<\/p>\n

“We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.”<\/p>\n

“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?”<\/p>\n

“I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.”<\/p>\n

“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?”<\/p>\n

“I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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