Horne in Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.

Quotes

• It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
  • Quoted in People magazine, 10 November 1980

• Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
  • Quoted in: The New Bajan, (1990) p. 22

• I am not alone. I am 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. 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 (ca. 1997) in: Susan Ratcliffe (2012) Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, p. 208

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