Lena HorneIt'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 u… ▶341Hope
Lena HorneI found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.375Humanity
Lena HorneMy identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.281Reflection
Lena HorneI 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 wha… ▶325Humanity
Lena HorneThe best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!271Life
Lena HorneAfter 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.284SadnessThoughtTime
Lena HorneI 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. ✨ Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Susan… ▶3310Hope
Lena HorneIt's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance. ✨ People Magazine, November 10, 1980.233Humanity
Lena HorneI made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.289Humanity
Lena HorneI 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.202DeathLife
Lena HorneDon't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.203Death
Lena HorneI'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 obituary by John Fordha… ▶204Life
Lena HorneAlways be smarter than the people who hire you. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.248Humanity
Lena HorneI 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 we… ▶216Time
Lena HorneIn my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.172Life
Lena HorneEvery 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.185Thought
Lena HorneThe 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.229Humanity
Lena HorneI want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.133Philosophy
Lena HorneYou have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. ✨ Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). Lena188Hope
Lena HorneIt's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.137Reflection
