Quotes by Ethel Waters

“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”

“Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”

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

“You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.”

“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.”