101 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.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

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

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

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

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

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

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