Ethel Waters

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

I am an isolationist.

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

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.