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

-- Lena Horne

#Singing Quotes #Black Quotes #Way Quotes

“As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.”
“You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'Â½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.”
“Be the person your dog thinks you are.”
“Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.”
“The Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ (D&C 20:9). That does not mean it contains every teaching, every doctrine ever revealed. Rather, it means that in the Book of Mormon we will find the fulness of those doctrines required for our salvation. And they are taught plainly and simply so that even children can learn the ways of salvation and exaltation.”
“It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”
“Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.”

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