Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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 wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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’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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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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A 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.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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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