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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.

Eartha Kitt

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.
EARTHA KITT

Body Just Move Point Vocal Want Well Word
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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Being Budget Country Happen House Information Love Subcerivel
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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Accept Ask Blackball Direct Except People Question Responsible Tell Truth
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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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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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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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Attention Get Like Love Men
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’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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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
EARTHA KITT

Body Character Child Each Just Look Lot Move Song Way
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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Away Come Everybody Give Life Mother
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.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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 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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