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.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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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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 was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
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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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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