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
men saint enough
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
sleep men gang
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
men epic two
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
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.
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.
battle spunk cry
There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.
catholic church protestants
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
success thinking play
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.