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.
EARTHA KITTWhen 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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 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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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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