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
mother evangelism release
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
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.
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.
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.
my-family whole-family instruments
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
stars ideas accepted
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.