I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTWhenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTEven as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITTWhen 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.
EARTHA KITTWhen 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 KITTOrson 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.
EARTHA KITTI was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITTI love to tease men with my legs.
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.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
EARTHA KITTI wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
EARTHA KITTI 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?
EARTHA KITTI’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.
EARTHA KITTI never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
EARTHA KITTI used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
EARTHA KITT