Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
