I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
EARTHA KITTI wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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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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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 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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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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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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 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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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