Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTWe’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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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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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.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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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’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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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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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’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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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I used to teach dance lessons.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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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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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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