American - Musician | October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
Ethel Waters
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
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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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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
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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.
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There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
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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.
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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.
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No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
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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.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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