I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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’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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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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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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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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