"I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked."

(Lena Horne, cantante e attrice; Bedford-Stuyvesant, 30 giugno 1917 – New York, 9 maggio 2010)