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Ethel Waters

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

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Ethel Waters
"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

Houses

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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."

Idea

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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
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."

Business

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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
"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."

Inheritance

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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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