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.
EARTHA KITTI stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Relationships 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!
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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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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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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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When 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.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I was a street dancer.
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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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