When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers. Ethel Waters More Quotes by Ethel Waters More Quotes From Ethel Waters We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. Ethel Waters success inspiring happiness I am somebody cause God don't make no junk Ethel Waters junk causes Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise. Ethel Waters criticize praise people Only those who are being burned know what fire is like. Ethel Waters burned authenticity fire All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters epidemics epic men There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. Ethel Waters singing emotional people You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family. Ethel Waters importance persons mother 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 tin-cans kitchen mom I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow. Ethel Waters sparrows looking-forward arms Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters faults virtue race 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. Ethel Waters regret mom business When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege. Ethel Waters privilege pay people 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 aunt eating kids Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. Ethel Waters news phones may Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. Ethel Waters dew smell flower 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 play success thinking When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime. Ethel Waters suffering joy trying 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 accepted stars ideas I am an isolationist. Ethel Waters 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 differences yellow thinking
