“[at age eighty] My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. 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, actress, singer, entertainer and activist
December 22, 2024
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