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.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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