I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITTI was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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’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.
EARTHA KITTGreed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
EARTHA KITTYou don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
EARTHA KITTYou don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
EARTHA KITTRelationships 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!
EARTHA KITTDon’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
EARTHA KITTI love to tease men with my legs.
EARTHA KITTJewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
EARTHA KITTI’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.
EARTHA KITTA 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.
EARTHA KITTMaybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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 KITTGenerally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT