Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise. Ethel Waters More Quotes by Ethel Waters More Quotes From Ethel Waters The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground. Ethel Waters harlemhomelong There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. Ethel Waters undertakerbusinessshows I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. Ethel Waters outsidersfelt New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. Ethel Waters philadelphiacitiesnew-york Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. Ethel Waters omenhousedoors We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out. Ethel Waters judgmentquittingmissing I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. Ethel Waters teenagerinspirationalpeople I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford. Ethel Waters spendingclothespartners I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up. Ethel Waters couplebeergiving I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me. Ethel Waters psychicswallrooms I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors. Ethel Waters outsidersjudgingjobs Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. Ethel Waters evangelismreleasemother There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. Ethel Waters kitchenhellhypocrisy There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me. Ethel Waters spunkcrybattle There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals. Ethel Waters individualtypewhite I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. Ethel Waters tendernessaffectionwant My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. Ethel Waters knivesmotherfather If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. Ethel Waters boredlonelyfun All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people. Ethel Waters wealthypeople Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something. Ethel Waters protestantscatholicchurch
