#eve

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

— Ethel Waters

#i #liked #never #understood

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

— Ethel Waters

#about #anything #been #brow #feel

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#business #comforts #enough #live #long

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#been #big #big time #city #ever

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#being #every #features #gloves #i

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#close friend #columbus #dropped #friend #guide

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? ↗

— John Waters

#heard #most #perverse #thing #you

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#everybody #homegrown #means #see #swing

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#big night #blues #cents #everybody #find

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#everybody #everybody else #first #liked #obviously