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Ethel Waters

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

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"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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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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"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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"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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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
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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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"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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"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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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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