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. Ethel Waters Read Quote
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. Ethel Waters Read Quote
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. Ethel Waters Read Quote
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn’t know me. They wouldn’t drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn’t come down. Ethel Waters Read Quote
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. Ethel Waters Read Quote
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. Ethel Waters Read Quote
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters Read Quote
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. Ethel Waters Read Quote
