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 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I was a street dancer.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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 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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