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Beauty in the apertures of pain

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I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.
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“You know, friends, that I do not lie to you when I tell you I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents.  And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee…”

Josephine Baker is known best for her career as a dancer, singer and actress. This photo shows us another side of her: this is Josephine at the March on Washington in 1963, where she was the only official female speaker. You can read the full text of her speech (including the quote above) here.

Josephine is dressed in her Free French military uniform, including her Legion of Honour medal (the one on left), which she earned for her services as a spy - known as an “honourable correspondent” - during WWII. After the war, Josephine began to campaign for civil rights in the USA, and was made a life member of the NAACP.

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