After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering … - Ethel Waters

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You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid.

Ethel Waters

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

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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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