Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

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• Ethel Waters:

  My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

• Ethel Waters:

  Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drin

• Ethel Waters:

  Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money

• Ethel Waters:

  It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

• Ethel Waters:

  In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, i

• Ethel Waters:

  I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the swe

• Ethel Waters:

  I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one

• Ethel Waters:

  I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from hand

• Ethel Waters:

  I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

• Maya Angelou:

  I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'