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

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Vera Miles

"I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."

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Vera Miles

"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."

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Vera Miles

"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."

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Vera Miles

"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."

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Vera Miles

"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."

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Vera Miles

"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."

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Vera Miles

"It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist."

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Vera Miles

"I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship."

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Vera Miles

"I really wasn't a class clown."

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Vera Miles

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

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Lena Horne
"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."

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

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Lena Horne
"I really do hate to sing."

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Lena Horne
"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

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

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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 was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."

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