The Josephine Baker Story (1991 TV Movie)

Lynn Whitfield: Josephine Baker

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Quotes 

• Josephine Baker : What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

• Josephine Baker : Stop that man! You stop! You called me a nigger! You said you didn't want to sit alongside a nigger! Well, I don't know if you know it, but there are laws against that! Call the police and tell them I am making a citizen's arrest now!

• Josephine's Mother : [after being told they must use the hotel's back entrance]  Like the man said: "It ain't no disgrace being a negro, but it sure is inconvenient at times."

  Josephine Baker : Now I know I'm home.

• Josephine Baker : One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

• Josephine Baker : [after her show becomes a critical failure in America]  You did this to me.

  Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino : I gave you Broadway. How could I know?

  Josephine Baker : You gave me Broadway to keep me busy because you know there's nothing between us anymore!

  Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino : No, I love you.

  Josephine Baker : You don't love me! You worship me. That's not the same thing. You worship me because you think you made me!

  Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino : [pointing to Josephine's heart]  How can you say there's nothing in here? I have nothing but you.

  Josephine Baker : And I can't live with that anymore! I was right. I was right! I never should have come back here. Especially with you! Especially with *you*!

  [storms off] 

• Josephine Baker : Hollywood wants me to play maids - I have maids of my own.

• Josephine Baker : My dear, I know exactly how I'm gonna die: out of breath, exhausted at the end of a dance. And that won't be for a long, long time.