My father came back one day and forced my mother t...

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

Ethel Waters

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Ethel Waters

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

Ethel Waters

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

Ethel Waters

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

My father came back one day ...