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My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: slavery, go, world, people

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You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: school, yourself, you, education
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: too, little, america, devil
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: really, any, simply, clothes
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: world, people, peace, life
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
— Josephine Baker
Tags: terror, away, because, discrimination
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