Lena Horne

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

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

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

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.