Ethel Waters

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk ↗

— Ethel Waters

#inspirational

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

— Ethel Waters

#big #both #joy #look #mine

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

— Ethel Waters

#been #i #life #my life #people

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

— Ethel Waters

#cannot #feeling #happier #help #husband

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#annoyed #cheering #colored #dreaded #hadn

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#epic #epidemic #life #men #my life

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

— Ethel Waters

#asking #considered #i #impossible #pay

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#between #blacks #browns #decided #difference

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

— Ethel Waters

#hurt #i #plenty #reason #shy