Died Quote by Ethel Waters Download Open image “Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.” — Ethel Waters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Died Doors House Omen Persons
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“When death knocks at the door, it depends on how you react to it. If you can react in a friendly way, in a… — Osho Copy Share Image
The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad… — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Death is only a door, when it closes another opens. Heaven is being reunited with those we love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the… — Nancy Byrd Turner 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
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo. — Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira Copy Share Image
My gramps died 4 years ago from a heart attack .. I came in late at the hospital because I was buying dope.. I… — Yankit Copy Share Image
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image