I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.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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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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I am an isolationist.
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
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