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
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.
mom drinking childhood
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
mom husband hard-life
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
mom regret business
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.
mom children heart
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
cannot happier
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
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.