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
doors house omen
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
success thinking play
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.
black-history black depends
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
mom husband hard-life
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.
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
greatest importance job kids love mother
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.
ella riff
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.