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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.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Family Greatest Importance Job Just Kids Love Love You Mother Person Right Will You Your

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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Close Columbus Dropped Friend Guide Had Her Indian Medium Mysterious Ohio Played Powers See Whenever Who

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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.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Bathtub Big Had Kitchen Me Mom Never Tin Wooden Would

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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.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: About Depend Entire Excited Future Might Play Reassuring Show Success Think Though Truth

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There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Hell Hypocrisy Kitchen

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

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Amateur Business Great Show Show Business Supply

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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.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Audiences Being Every Features Gloves Off Performance Prove Spade Take Thought White

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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.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Beer Big Came Come Compliment Down Drink Glasses Had Know Me Move Sang Who

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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Frenzy Me Mother Release She Somehow Sought Things Transferred Wanted Were

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

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Beat Ella Fitzgerald Riff Singer World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 31st, 1896

Died: September 1st, 1977

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