Josephine Baker Quotes

“...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”
― Josephine Baker

“They call my country the land of the free, but I was born poor and black, and there wasn't much free about that .”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours