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.
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. - Ethel Waters
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
- Ethel Waters
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
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available. - Ethel Waters
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise. - Ethel Waters
Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out. - Ethel Waters
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. - Ethel Waters
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. - Ethel Waters
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty. - Ethel Waters
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like. - Ethel Waters
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
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