Lena Horne circa 1943-2015
by David Lee Guss
Title
Lena Horne circa 1943-2015
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.""
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
"A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it."
"In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way."
[on love] "Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can."
"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."
[on Myrna Loy] "A great star and a woman of accomplishment who is angry about all the right things."
"I had this sort of greedy agent who made me go to Hollywood in the hope that I'd be in movies."
[on MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer] "He was the most clever, ruthless, smart character that you would never want to know. All those guys were--Harry Cohn
[Columbia Pictures chief] . . . Jack L. Warner [Warner Bros. chief]--believe me, they weren't dumb. They were the czars of the industry--and they had no mercy."
"I never considered myself a movie star. Mostly, I just sang songs in other people's movies."
"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."- Lena Horne, 1917-2010
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November 21st, 2015
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