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.
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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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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.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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 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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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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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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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