Quote

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Ethel Waters

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ethel Waters
Age: 80 †
Born: 1896
Born: October 31
Died: 1977
Died: September 1
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Vocalist
Chester
Pennsylvania
Belonged
Outsider
Outsiders
Felt
Always
Never

More quotes by Ethel Waters

Image
I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
Ethel Waters
Image
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
Ethel Waters
Image
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
Ethel Waters
Image
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
Ethel Waters
Image
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Ethel Waters
Image
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Ethel Waters
Image
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Ethel Waters
Image
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
Ethel Waters
Image
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Ethel Waters
Image
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
Ethel Waters
Image
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
Ethel Waters
Image
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
Image
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters
Image
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.
Ethel Waters
Image
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.
Ethel Waters
Image
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
Ethel Waters
Image
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Ethel Waters
Image
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.
Ethel Waters
Image
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
Ethel Waters
Image
Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.
Ethel Waters