Lena Horne Quotes

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!

you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!

It's not the weight of the load, but how you carry it. ~Lena Horne~

I love Lena Horne's "It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it." And Annie Dillard"s roughly remembered: Sometimes you have to just jump off the edge and find your wings on the way down.

Always be smarter than those who hire you

I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.

What an endless chain of unhappiness prejudice forges. —LENA HORNE

It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.1 — LENA HORNE

It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it