"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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Source : "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

Lena Horne

#Credit Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Symbols Quotes

“Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.”
“Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.”
“Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”
“I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.”
“Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.”
“If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.”
“The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.”
“The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.”

Source : "Ron Daniels Breaks Down Obama's Speech to NAACP". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.

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