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Ethel Waters Inspirational Quotes (44)

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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
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Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
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I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
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We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
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When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
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In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
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What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
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I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.
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Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
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Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.
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I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
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The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
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There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
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