101 Quotes by Ethel Waters

God doesn't make junk

Ignorance, foolishness, and poverty-we owned this by our birth.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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

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.

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

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.