The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

- Lena Horne

I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

- Lena Horne

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

- Lena Horne

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you'r…

- Lena Horne

I really do hate to sing.

- Lena Horne

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

- Lena Horne

I 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 ne…

- Lena Horne

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

- Lena Horne

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

- Lena Horne