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’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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 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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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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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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 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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