Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waterswas an American blues, jazz and gospel singer and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth31 October 1896
CityChester, PA
CountryUnited States of America
middle shows
I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.
new-york house apartment
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
joy suffering trying
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
age firsts stage
When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
jobs judging outsiders
I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
white individual certain
There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
missing quitting judgment
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
doors house omen
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
inspirational teenager people
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.
emotional people singing
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
flower smell odor
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
home long made
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
mother importance persons
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
clothes more-money partners
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.