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The value of an idea lies in the using of it. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#lies #using #value

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

— Ethel Waters

#epic #epidemic #life #men #my life

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

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

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

— Ethel Waters

#best #bring #credit #gave #intelligence

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

— Ethel Waters

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

— Ethel Waters

#belonged #felt #i #never #outsider

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