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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.

Eartha Kitt

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 KITT

Belong Black Carry Everybody Myself Person Women
In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Cotton Essence Picker Sophisticate
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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Accept Ask Blackball Direct Except People Question Responsible Tell Truth
I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Consider Duckling Ugly
You 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.
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Body Just Move Point Vocal Want Well Word
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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Care Find First Get Job Necessity People Poverty Way
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Animal Being Children Exercise Feel Have Want
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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Child Effection Great Know Little Need Such Tough Whether
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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Air Brain Doctor Found Imagination Power School Scientist Something Successful
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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Defying Do Doctor Everything One People Person Support These Told
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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Audience Cheek Coat Diamond Everything Finger Front Fur Show Time Two Woman
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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All Derries IT Jewelry Pain Time Watch
I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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Answer Ask Feeling Honesty Political Sleeve Wear
You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Anybody Have Head Hit Myself
I used to teach dance lessons.
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Dance Lesson Teach Use
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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Business Do Have Living Nobody Own Private Style

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