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.
EARTHA KITTI see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I was a street dancer.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
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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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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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