I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel WatersTwenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
Ethel WatersMy father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
Ethel Waters