My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. Ethel Waters More Quotes by Ethel Waters More Quotes From Ethel Waters 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. Ethel Waters techniqueactingplay 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. Ethel Waters spadesgloveswhite I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business. Ethel Waters i-dont-carecaredresses I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. Ethel Waters elephantsmindmemories I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you. Ethel Waters gangsleepmen I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. Ethel Waters saintenoughmen I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up. Ethel Waters wedlockborn I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. Ethel Waters browssweatable 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. Ethel Waters youfamilymotherlove No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. Ethel Waters ella-fitzgeraldbeatsingerworld
