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Ethel Waters

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

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"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

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"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."

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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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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
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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."
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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."
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"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
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"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."
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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."
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"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
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