Lena Horne

thumb|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 (c. 1997) in Susan Ratcliffe (2012) Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, p. 208 "Always be smarter than the people who hire you.“ As quoted on quotepark.com I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people. As quoted on quote.org Quotes about Lena Horne My friend, Miss Lena Horne James Baldwin in the poem "For EARL" One of my fondest personal memories was Lena Horne and Mike Douglas. We were booked to do "Here's to My Lady" and a prolonged medley together on a Kraft Music Hall Special. I was so thrilled, I kept making mistakes in rehearsal just so we'd have to do it over again. Mike Douglas, in I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show] (2000) by Douglas (with Thomas Kelly and Michael Heaton), pp. 52-53 External links Category:Lena Horne Category:1917 births Category:2010 deaths Category:African Americans Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Actresses from New York City Category:Dancers from the United States Category:Women activists from the United States Category:Jazz singers Category:Civil rights activists Category:Catholics from the United States Category:Tony Award winners Category:Women born in the 1910s