Lena Horne Quotes

• My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

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• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

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• Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

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• I’m still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don’t know.

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• I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody.

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• I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

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• I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

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• I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

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• I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn’t angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

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• I really do hate to sing.

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• I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

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• I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.

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• Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

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• As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

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• fter I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn’t a nice time.

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• I don’t think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award.

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• It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

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• You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.

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• It’s ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

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• It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

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Lena Horne (22)

Birth:	30th June, 1917
Death:	9th May, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.

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