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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
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Lena Horne
Age: 92 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 30
Died: 2010
Died: May 9
Actor
Dancer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Musician
Pin-Up Girl
Recording Artist
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Stage Actor
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New York City
New York
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
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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.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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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.
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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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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
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music became my refuge and then my salvation.
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I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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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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My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be taught to be second class you're not born that way.
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50 years old is like springtime to me.
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You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.
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