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Ethel Waters

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

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"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

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Ethel Waters
"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."

Life

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Ethel Waters
"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."

Hell

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Ethel Waters
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."

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Ethel Waters
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."

People

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Ethel Waters
"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."

World

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Ethel Waters
"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."

Love

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Ethel Waters
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."

Living

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Ethel Waters
"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

Death

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Ethel Waters
"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."

Beer

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Ethel Waters
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

Joy

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