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Ethel Waters
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 31
,
1896
Died:
Sep 1
,
1977
Been
Big
Me
Mom
Never
People
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
Ethel Waters
Joy
Big
Mine
Has-Been
Both
Over
Look
Been
Yesterdays
Aches
Shoulder
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
Ethel Waters
Hurt
Plenty
Been
Reason
Shy
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Ethel Waters
Smell
Nothing
Down
Earth
Sun
Out
Beat
Dew
Odor
Goes
Flowers
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
Ethel Waters
People
Singing
Outlet
Emotional
Had
Always
Blues
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
Ethel Waters
Work
Mom
Me
Business
Regret
Money
Long
Live
Enough
Some
Brought
Only
Never
Share
Never Quit
She
Comforts
Quit
Show
Show Business
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Ethel Waters
People
Think
No Difference
Browns
Blacks
More
Between
Southerners
Difference
Decided
Whites
Basically
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
Ethel Waters
Living
Able
Brow
About
Never
Feel
Making
Been
Undignified
Anything
Sweat
Your
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
Thought
White
Every
Features
Take
Performance
Gloves
Audiences
Prove
Off
Being
Spade
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters
You
People
Matter
Try
Teen
Back
Kind
How
Go
Up
Wanted
Again
Them
Hard
Grown
Grown-Up
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
Ethel Waters
Life
Men
My Life
Been
Epic
Epidemic
Things
Two
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
Ethel Waters
Never
Outsider
Felt
Always
Belonged
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
Ethel Waters
Work
Impossible
Pay
Considered
Someone
Salary
Want
Again
Asking
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.
Ethel Waters
Me
Noise
Young
White
Dreaded
Something
Colored
Annoyed
Cheering
Houses
Years
After
Theaters
Whistling
Working
Now
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Ethel Waters
Medium
Guide
Indian
See
Mysterious
Had
Columbus
Dropped
Powers
Friend
Close
Close Friend
Ohio
Whenever
Who
Her
Played
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 glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
Ethel Waters
Me
Beer
Glasses
Big
Down
Compliment
Drink
Drinkers
Had
Come
Know
Came
Move
Sang
Who
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
Ethel Waters
World
Beat
No-One
Singer
Fitzgerald
Riff
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Ethel Waters
Time
Big
Other
City
Only
New
Been
American
York
New York
Big Time
Miles
Ever
Philadelphia
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Ethel Waters
Other
Virtues
Faults
Negroes
Members
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Same
Human
Human Beings
Races
Beings
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters
Me
Affection
Desperately
Out
Something
Prevents
Tenderness
Handing
Want
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
Ethel Waters
Guess
Once
Through
Never
Idea
Accepted
Been
Person
Who
Star
Ever
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
Life
My Life
Something
Instinctively
Role
Any
Act
Acting
Based
Why
Play
Technique
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