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. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Source: On her performance with the Revue Negre, c. 1925; in Josephine, 1977.
-- Josephine Baker, (Jun 3 1906-1975), French jazz singer, dancer; She was Folies-Bergere's Dark Star, 1920s who introduced hot jazz to Paris; active in Resistance, WW II and outspoken about civil rights.

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