Quotes By Ethel Waters

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

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.

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.

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

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