Ethel Waters Quotes

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.

Ethel Waters

• House
• Fear
• Cheer
• Noise
• Annoyed
• Stomping

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