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.
EARTHA KITTPeople in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 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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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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 wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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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.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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