In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITTWe’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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 was a street dancer.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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 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 had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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