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.
EARTHA KITTRelationships 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!
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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The 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.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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I was a street dancer.
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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