Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
Ethel Waters
Somehow, the things my mother ...
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
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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.
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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
