Quotes by 'Ethel Waters'

Ethel Waters

Ethel Waterswas an American blues, jazz and gospel singer and actress...

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.

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.