Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Ethel Waters - Page 2
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Ethel Waters.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
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