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Lena Horne
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“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1917–2010) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lena Horne (c. 1997) in Susan Ratcliffe (2012) Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, p. 208
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source