When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
EARTHA KITTPeople in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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