The public has become my fairy godmother.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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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 am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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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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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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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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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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