It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
"Lena Mary Calhoun Horne" was an United States/American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather (1943 film)/Stormy Weather. Because of the McCarthyism/Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood, Los Angeles/Hollywood. Her career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television and on broadway.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom/March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and Accolade#Other meanings/accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
I don't think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award.
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