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1. "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

2. "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

3. "You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way." ~ Lena Horne

4. "It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance." ~ Lena Horne

5. "I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald." ~ Lena Horne

6. "My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman." ~ Lena Horne

7. "As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad." ~ Lena Horne

8. "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

9. "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." ~ Lena Horne

10. "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

11. "I really do hate to sing." ~ Lena Horne

12. "Always be smarter than the people who hire you." ~ Lena Horne

13. "I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt." ~ Lena Horne

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