I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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 was a street dancer.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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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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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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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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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People 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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