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
cannot happier
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
ella riff
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
best bring credit gave understood
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
greatest importance job kids love mother
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
mean want nasty
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
wall psychics rooms
I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.
mother father knives
My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
mother evangelism release
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
lonely fun bored
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
I am an isolationist.
mom tin-cans kitchen
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
men saint enough
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
white gloves spades
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.