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
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
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. Ethel Waters
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. Ethel Waters