Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate 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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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