Your Morning Baker
For Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Week 80 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week Josephine Baker
“...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."
If it's possible to fall in love with a dead lady, ...
Josephine Baker, Eldridge Cleaver, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, and many others that I cannot recall before my first cuppa, they all saw the original sin and spoke clearly about its reality. We are oh-so-slowly millimetering towards the ideal exemplified by the statue of liberty.