All Ethel Waters Quotes
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
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No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
Ethel Waters
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
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All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
Ethel Waters
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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
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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.
Ethel Waters
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
Ethel Waters
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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
Ethel Waters
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