Josephine Baker
You're Dead to Me
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The Black Venetian
She's known as the black venus, which is a eroticized, but also racialized epithet. Ernest hemmingway called her the most sensational woman any one ever saw. She uses egg whites to slick her hair downi see a lot of women trying to get that kind of closely quaffed look that she was. So not heruntil the flies come around. Haha, ha, ha.
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