Beautiful Lena Horne
“Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can.”
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
“In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I’m black and a woman, singing my own way.”
“My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman, I’m not alone, I’m free. I say I’m free because 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. 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.”
(About Myrna Loy) “A great star and a woman of accomplishment who is angry about all the right things.”
“I never considered myself a movie star. Mostly, I just sang songs in other people’s movies.”