Ethel Waters

I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but…

I wanted to be with the kind of people I’d grown up with, but you…

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the…

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough…

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in…

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think…

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub…

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week…