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
people wealthy
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
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.
people pay privilege
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
people praise criticize
Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
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.