If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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We’re not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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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.
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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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