There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
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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
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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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.
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All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
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