In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
EARTHA KITTI 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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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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.
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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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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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