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01Undated

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Ethel Waters / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

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.

Ethel Waters / quote

05Undated

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

Ethel Waters / quote

06Undated

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

Ethel Waters / quote