54 Quotes by Lena Horne

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.