“...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”

“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.”

“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?”

“you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-""Going to the Eiffel Tower?”

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

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

“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”