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“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
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“you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way”
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“It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!”
Lena Horne
“Always be smarter than those who hire you”
Lena Horne
“I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.”
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