- 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: [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: 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.
- Josephine's Mother: [after Josephine is exiled from America] Let's get one thing straight from the get-go: I ain't learning no French.