American - Musician | October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Ethel Waters
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We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
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There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
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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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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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The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
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