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• Ethel Waters:

  Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire

• Ethel Waters:

  There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

• Ethel Waters:

  There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

• Ethel Waters:

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

• Ethel Waters:

  The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance

• Ethel Waters:

  The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when

• Ethel Waters:

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

• Ethel Waters:

  Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun

• Ethel Waters:

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

• Ethel Waters:

  New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever