Ethel Waters Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Ethel Waters quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased musician born on Oct 31, 1900). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 40 we have for her.
“Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.”
“Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.”
“I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.”
“I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.”
“Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.”
“No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.”
“There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.”
“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 was young was now something I dreaded.”
“I am an isolationist.”
“Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.”
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