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.
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 wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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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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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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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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.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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’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.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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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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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Orson 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.
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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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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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