"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."
"Josephine Baker started work aged just eight to help support her family. By the age of thirteen, she was married for the first time and working as a waitress."
"She rocketed to fame with her often comedic dances, including her infamous performance dance sauvage (savage dance) in which she wore a skirt made of rubber bananas and danced the Charleston."
"Baker became known in the high flying circles of Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway and soon she became the highest earning entertainer in Europe."
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