Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTJust because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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When 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.
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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.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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