“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?”

“...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower”

“I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.”

“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”

“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”

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

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