Quotes By Ethel Waters

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

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

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

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

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.