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Lena Horne

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

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Donna Grant

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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Donna Grant

"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

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Donna Grant

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."

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Donna Grant

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

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Donna Grant

"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."

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Donna Grant

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

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Donna Grant

"I was always the class clown."

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Donna Grant

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

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Donna Grant

"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."

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Lena Horne
"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."

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Lena Horne
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

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Lena Horne
"I really do hate to sing."

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Lena Horne
"As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad."

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Lena Horne
"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."

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Lena Horne
"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."

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Lena Horne
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."

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Lena Horne
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."

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Lena Horne
"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."

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Lena Horne
"I'm not alone, I'm 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."

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