I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford. Ethel Waters More Quotes by Ethel Waters More Quotes From Ethel Waters We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. Ethel Waters successinspiringhappiness I am somebody cause God don't make no junk Ethel Waters junkcauses Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise. Ethel Waters criticizepraisepeople Only those who are being burned know what fire is like. Ethel Waters burnedauthenticityfire All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters epidemicsepicmen There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. Ethel Waters singingemotionalpeople You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family. Ethel Waters importancepersonsmother 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-canskitchenmom 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 sparrowslooking-forwardarms Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters faultsvirtuerace 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 regretmombusiness 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 privilegepaypeople 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 aunteatingkids Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. Ethel Waters newsphonesmay 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 dewsmellflower 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 playsuccessthinking When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime. Ethel Waters sufferingjoytrying 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 acceptedstarsideas 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 differencesyellowthinking
