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 KITTThe 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 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.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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