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.
EARTHA KITTI think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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