Ethel Waters Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Kids, Aunt, Eating

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• We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

  Ethel Waters

  Girl, Towns, Accommodations

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Thinking, Yellow, Differences

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• The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

  Ethel Waters

  Home, Long, Harlem

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Girl, Years, Long

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Lonely, Fun, Bored

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• I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

  Ethel Waters

  Middle, Shows

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• I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

  Ethel Waters

  Want, Affection, Tenderness

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• I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

  Ethel Waters

  Dresses, Care, I Don't Care

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• I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

  Ethel Waters

  Wall, Psychics, Rooms

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• I am an isolationist.

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Mother, Evangelism, Release

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• There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

  Ethel Waters

  Hypocrisy, Kitchen, Hell

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Cheer, Fear, Years

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• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Gloves, Spades

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• All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

  Ethel Waters

  People, Wealthy

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• I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

  Ethel Waters

  Sleep, Men, Gang

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• My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

  Ethel Waters

  Mother, Father, Knives

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• I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

  Ethel Waters

  Stars, Ideas, Accepted

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• Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

  Ethel Waters

  Doors, House, Omen

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• I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

  Ethel Waters

  Clothes, Partners, Spending

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• When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

  Ethel Waters

  Joy, Suffering, Trying

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

  Ethel Waters

  Outsiders, Felt

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• Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

  Ethel Waters

  Success, Thinking, Play

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• New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

  Ethel Waters

  New York, Cities, Philadelphia

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