Monday, May 10, 2010

SELECTED LENA HORNE QUOTATIONS

FROM about.com

• In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

• 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.

• Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

• Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

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

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

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

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