Ethel Waters
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“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.” -Ethel Waters
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“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.” -Ethel Waters
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“In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.” -Ethel Waters
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“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
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“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.” -Ethel Waters
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“I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.” -Ethel Waters
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