Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waterswas an American blues, jazz and gospel singer and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth31 October 1896
CityChester, PA
CountryUnited States of America
business undertaker show-business
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
my-family whole-family instruments
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
yesterday joy looks
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
mom tin-cans kitchen
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
hypocrisy kitchen hell
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
mom children heart
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
wedlock born
I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
sleep men gang
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
lonely fun bored
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
kids aunt eating
My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.
girl towns accommodations
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
girl years long
Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
long agents today
Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.
catholic church protestants
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.