Sex Was A Pleasurable Form Of Exercise,

...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

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.

I Ran Away From St. Louis, And Then I Ran Away From The United States, Because Of That Terror Of Discrimination.

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.

I Remember When Lindbergh Arrived In Paris, I Was One Of The First Persons To Know About His Landing, Because As The French People Know That I Was Born In St. Louis, Thinking I Would Be Very Proud To Announce It To The Public, They Gave Me The News First. I Was Then Starring In The 'folies Bergere.'