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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Ethel Waters
Dew
Earth
Flowers
Nothing
Sun
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
Ethel Waters
World
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Ethel Waters
Time
American
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters
Mom
Childhood
Drinking
Influence
Lust
Vice
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Ethel Waters
Faults
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Ethel Waters
Time
People
Emotions
Privilege
Will
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
Family
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.
Ethel Waters
Thought
Performance
Audiences
Being