When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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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 was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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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