The Wisdom Of Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

As reported by her friend Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Thurston

 In Zora's Autobiography "Dust Tracks on a Road" (1942)
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Zora reports the following as having been said by Ethel.

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 "It's nice to be talking with you, Zora" she told me another time. "Conversation is the ceremony of companionship".

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Speaking of a man we both know, she said, "The bigger the lie he tells, the more guts he tells it with".

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 "That man's jaws are loaded with big  words, but he never says a thing, she said speaking of a mutual friend. He got his words out of a book.  I got mine out of life".

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 "She shot him lightly and he died politely" she commented after reading in the Los Angeles Examiner about a woman killing her lover.
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Commenting on a man who had used coarse language. she said,

 "I'd rather him talk differently, but you can't hold him responsible, Zora, they are all the words he's got"

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 P.S.  I am as certain as I can be that I heard Ethel Waters sing "His Eye is On the Sparrow"  at a Billy Graham Crusade in London in about 1964.  

 This video is not from a Billy Graham Crusade
https://youtu.be/_QbeNSatFFo

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