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.
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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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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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 do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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