Quotes by Lena Horne - Page 1

I really do hate to sing.
Lena Horne / Singer
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I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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50 years old is like springtime to me.
Lena Horne / Singer
Springtime
Years
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music became my refuge and then my salvation.
Lena Horne / Singer
Music
Music Is
Salvation
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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
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Inspiring
Intelligence
Work
People
Smarter
Always People Who
Always
Hire
Than
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I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.
Lena Horne / Singer
Clubs
Cotton
Schooling
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My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Lena Horne / Singer
Black
Black Women
Clear
Identity
Me I Am Black
Black I Am Me
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Lena Horne / Singer
Made
People
Promise
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I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.
Lena Horne / Singer
Imperfect
Littles
Way
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The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
Lena Horne / Singer
Chance
Best Things
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
Lena Horne / Singer
African American
Born
Class
Taught
Way
Second
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It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
Lena Horne / Singer
Flower
Fragrance
Nice
Smell
Flowers
Still
While
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne / Singer
Men
Band
Way
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I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
Lena Horne / Singer
Feels
Knows
Stills
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As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
Lena Horne / Singer
Mad
Mouths
Trying
Mouth
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In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
Lena Horne / Singer
Black
Singing
Way
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You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.
Lena Horne / Singer
Autographs
Bus
Particular
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It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
Lena Horne / Singer
Becoming
Singing
Want
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I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
Lena Horne / Singer
Ability
Franklin
Want
Aretha
Ella
Fitzgerald
Sing
Technical
Technical Ability
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A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.
Lena Horne / Singer
Hurt
Littles
Use
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne / Singer
Death
Inspiring
Love
Angry
Feelings
Afraid
Loving
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I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
Lena Horne / Singer
Acting
Care
Singing
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Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
Lena Horne / Singer
Believe
Black
White
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Afterlife
Hollywood
Imitation
White
Hoped
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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Kings
Color
Nationality
Thinking
Touched
Dr
Dr. King
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Alone
Credit
Firsts
Symbols
Free
Anybody
Longer
Symbol
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I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
Lena Horne / Singer
Heard
Performers
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The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.
Lena Horne / Singer
Women
Attitude
Hypocrite
People
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Kings
Angry
Died
Like Something
Remember
Touched
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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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Consciousness
People
Raised
Myself People Person
Malcolm
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Angry
Heart
Influence
Made
Needed
Strong
Understand
Big Influence
Exerted
Malcolm
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After 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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Love
Nice
Pain
Terrible
Time Me Bad
Began
Everybody Else
Mine
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Kings
Men
Marijuana
My Generation
Needed
Our Lives
Dr
Dr. King
Generation
Similar
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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.
Lena Horne / Singer
Brave
Clubs
Seven
Belong
Exceptions
Organizations
Mrs
Roosevelt
Unable
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.
Lena Horne / Singer
Class
Games
Way
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
Lena Horne / Singer
Acceptance
Unique
White
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I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
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Black
Brother
Water
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
Lena Horne / Singer
Bitterness
Gratitude
Way
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
Lena Horne / Singer
Grandchildren
Loss
Thinking
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