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Ethel Waters Inspirational Quotes (44)

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There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
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There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
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I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
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I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
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We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
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I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
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Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
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Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
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Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
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All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
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I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
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My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
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I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
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All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
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Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.
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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
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If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
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There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.
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