Top 40 Quotes by Ethel Waters

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

I never was a child.

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

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

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

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.