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Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Ethel Waters

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Ethel Waters
Age: 80 †
Born: 1896
Born: October 31
Died: 1977
Died: September 1
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Vocalist
Chester
Pennsylvania
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Burned
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All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
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I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.
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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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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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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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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
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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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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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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
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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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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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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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I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
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