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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
— Ethel Waters
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Ethel Waters
singer, jazz musician, stage actor, film actor
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1896 – 1977
Ethel Waters was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first African American to star on her own television show, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
All Quotes by Ethel Waters
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
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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
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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.
— Ethel Waters
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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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
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Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
— Ethel Waters
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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.
— Ethel Waters
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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
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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.
— Ethel Waters
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We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
— Ethel Waters
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
— Ethel Waters
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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
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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.
— Ethel Waters