"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

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"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

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