Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTLet’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTMy 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.
EARTHA KITTThis is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
EARTHA KITTI’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITTInnocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
EARTHA KITTI was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITTLive theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTI have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
EARTHA KITTI am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
EARTHA KITTGenerally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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.
EARTHA KITTI think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
EARTHA KITTThe river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
EARTHA KITTI wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT