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Ethel Waters

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

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

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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
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"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
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"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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"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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"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."
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