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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.

Eartha Kitt

Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
EARTHA KITT

Depend For On People Responsible You
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT

Affection Begging Stage Whenever Walk
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.
EARTHA KITT

Because Entertainer Color Term Thought We Are
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITT

Away Come Everybody Give Life Mother
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITT

All Diploma Learn Time Tombstone Will
I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT

Dancer Street
Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITT

Care Find First Get Job Necessity People Poverty Way
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITT

Live More Movie Much Television Theatre
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.
EARTHA KITT

Audience Cheek Coat Diamond Everything Finger Front Fur Show Time Two Woman
I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITT

Better Fight Myself Other People
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITT

Aging Beauty Respect Should That Wonderful
In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITT

Cotton Essence Picker Sophisticate
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.
EARTHA KITT

Edit Entertainment Happen See Stage Truth
I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITT

Dance Lesson Teach Use
Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT

Child Even Found Survive Way
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
EARTHA KITT

Follow Herd Made Myself Own Path Stay Way
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITT

Child Illegtimate Stikll
I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT

Believe Bother Eartham Kit Would
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITT

Last Look Mohican Money Only
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.
EARTHA KITT

Always Been Black Cultural Green Multi Myself Pink White
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.
EARTHA KITT

Air Brain Doctor Found Imagination Power School Scientist Something Successful
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.
EARTHA KITT

Always Dare Friend Give Land Men Really Said Territory
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.
EARTHA KITT

Body Just Move Point Vocal Want Well Word
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.
EARTHA KITT

Business Do Have Living Nobody Own Private Style
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
EARTHA KITT

Different Have Just Mean Reject
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
EARTHA KITT

Action Anybody Else More Myself Punish Reality Stupid Sufer Than
I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
EARTHA KITT

Acre Almost Atrium Beverly Big Chicken Country Hill Land Live Love Soil

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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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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