The Real Lena Horne

On the back of this morning's post

I have been reading a little about a performer I am sorry to say, that I knew nothing about

She was quite a lady

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 have to be taught to be secondclass;you're not born that way”

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

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.