Josephine Baker Quotations

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

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

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

I believe in prayer. It's the best...

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.