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 Copy Share Image
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be… — 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
