People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
EARTHA KITTPeople 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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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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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.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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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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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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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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’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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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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