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Josephine Baker
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“Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.”
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“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”
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“Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?”
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“My face and rump were famous! I could honestly say that I'd been blessed with an intelligent derrière. Most people's were only good to sit on!”
Josephine Baker, U.S.-born French dancer, singer, actor
(1906 - 1975)
Born: Freda Josephine McDonald.