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Top 30 Lena Horne Quotes (2025 Update)

Lena Horne Quote: “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what’s positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.”

1. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what’s positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.”

Lena Horne Quote: “Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

2. “Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”

3. “I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”

Lena Horne Quote: “Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.”

4. “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 Quote: “I’m still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don’t know.”

5. “I’m still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don’t know.”

Lena Horne Quote: “The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It’s like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone’s a hoe.”

6. “The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It’s like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone’s a hoe.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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’re being slanted until very late in the game.”

7. “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’re being slanted until very late in the game.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I’m black and a woman, singing my own way.”

9. “In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I’m black and a woman, singing my own way.”

Lena Horne Quote: “My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.”

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

Lena Horne Quote: “You wouldn’t be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you’d be asked to sign your autograph.”

11. “You wouldn’t be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you’d be asked to sign your autograph.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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 never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.”

12. “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 never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.”

13. “I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.”

15. “A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”

18. “It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”

Lena Horne Quote: “You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.”

19. “You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.”

Lena Horne Quote: “Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.”

20. “Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.”

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Lena Horne Quote: “Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody’s got to stand up and be counted.”

21. “Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody’s got to stand up and be counted.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.”

22. “I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn’t angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.”

23. “I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn’t angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.”

Lena Horne Quote: “It’s ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.”

24. “It’s ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.”

Lena Horne Quote: “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.”

25. “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 Quote: “I really do hate to sing.”

26. “I really do hate to sing.”

Lena Horne Quote: “Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.”

27. “Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.”

Lena Horne Quote: “Count Basie isn’t just a man, or even just a band. He’s a way of life.”

28. “Count Basie isn’t just a man, or even just a band. He’s a way of life.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”

29. “I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”

Lena Horne Quote: “I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.”

30. “I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.”

Lena Horne Quote: “As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.”

31. “As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.”

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