I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITTWhen 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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 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 think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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 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 don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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