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617 “The last thing I”: Ibid., 30.
618 “This is the most”: Evelyn Cunningham, “Says Ethel Waters: I’m Loaded with Faith!” Pittsburgh Courier, July 5, 1957, CF.
619 “knew something deeper was”: Waters, To Me It’s Wonderful, 33.
620 “who was still pretty”: Ibid., 35.
621 “Three times I made”: Ibid., 29.
622 “I was getting a”: Ibid., 37.
623 “had to call Billy”: Ibid., 38.
624 “I hadn’t met either”: Ibid., 31.
625 “because my child needs”: “Billy Lists Race as Top Problem,” Chicago Defender, June 12, 1958, A2.
626 “appearance in the huge”: Hazel Washington, “This Is HOLLYWOOD,” Chicago Defender, June 30, 1958, 17.
627 “When I got there”: Author interview with Clisson Woods.
628 “It was a church-related”: Author interview with Jim Malcolm.
629 “You know what?”: Hazel A. Washington, “This Is HOLLYWOOD,” Chicago Defender, March 24, 1959, 18.
630 “While Miss Waters packs”: Arthur Gelb, “Theatre: Ethel Waters,” New York Times, April 9, 1959, 36.
631 “I weighed 340 pounds”: Doug Mauldin, “Motherwise She’s Getting Along: Ethel Waters Is Rich Spiritually,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1961, F1.
632 “They don’t like it”: “ ‘Sitting on the Edge of Heaven,’ Says Ethel Waters, Ailing at 61,” July 10, 1961, 20, CF.
633 “My agent called one”: Aleene B. MacMinn, “Ethel Waters to Bow as Guest in TV Series,” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1961, A11.
634 “I didn’t know a”: Author interview with George Maharis. Other comments by Maharis in this chapter are from this interview.
635 “She was supposed to be”: Author interview with Marni Nixon. Other comments by Nixon in this chapter are from this interview.
636 “It was a heartbreaker”: Hedda Hopper, “Veteran Actress Honored at Party,” Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1963, E7.
637 “slim trim”: Author interview with Joan Croomes. Other comments by Croomes in this chapter are from this interview.
638 “a small fee”: Waters, Letter, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale University.
639 “Well, she’s gone”: Waters to Van Vechten, Letter, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale University.
640 “You know I’ve had”: “Ethel Waters Goes on Despite Heart Attack,” Chicago Defender, March 10, 1964, A3.
641 “I don’t believe I’ll”: Murray Schumach, “Career Discussed by Ethel Waters,” New York Times, February 22, 1964, np.
642 “In your long career”: Jere Witter, “Great Television Interviews—Held on, off the Screen,” Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1965, C23.
643 “The improvement in the”: J. Brantley Wilder and Jacob Sherman, “Singer Now 69, Has Been Away Since Teenager,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 20, 1965, 13.
644 “Mrs. Ethel Waters”: New York Daily News, November 12, 1970, CF.
645 “Dickie Boy”: Ethel Waters, To Me It’s Wonderful (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 110.
646 “they had tears in”: “Quaker Gives Sermon: Ethel Waters Sings at White House Rites,” Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1971, A4.
647 “I hope I didn’t”: Waters, To Me It’s Wonderful, 122.
648 “That was the closest”: Ibid., 123.
649 “Amidst the recent flurry”: John Wilson, “Records: Ethel Waters,” New York Times, March 2, 1973, CF.
650 “Perhaps this was the”: Wein and Chinen, Myself Among Others, 96.
651 “Ethel, we love you!”: Theodore W. Graham, “40,000 Blacks, Whites in Chester Salute ‘Ethel Waters, Christian,’ ” Philadelphia Tribune, May 2, 1972, CF.
652 “It’s hard to say”: Sandy Pearse, “Ethel Waters Honored,” Philadelphia Bulletin, May 1, 1972, CF.
653 “She was very happy”: Mary T. Henderson, “Ethel Waters . . . ‘Wonderful Person,’ ” Philadelphia Bulletin, CF.
654 “Pink is not my”: Twila Knaack, I Touched a Sparrow (Minneapolis, MN: World Wide Publications, 1978), 82.
655 “She made it in”: Jody Jacobs, “A Loving Tribute to Ethel Waters,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1971, D1.
656 “She stopped him short”: Knaack, I Touched a Sparrow, 83.
657 “It was hard for”: Jacobs, “A Loving Tribute to Ethel Waters,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1971, D1.
658 “You’ll get more use”: Knaack, I Touched a Sparrow, 83.
659 “Well, this is probably”: Ibid., 109.
660 “I’m not about to”: Ibid., 139.
661 “Might I say, while”: Juliann DeKorte, Finally Home (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1978), 40.
662 “No!”: Ibid., 57.
663 “One thing I found”: Ibid., 35.
664 “She could be stern”: Ibid., 59.
