Lena Horne Way Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.