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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.

Eartha Kitt

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.
EARTHA KITT

Acre Almost Atrium Beverly Big Chicken Country Hill Land Live Love Soil
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Different Have Just Mean Reject
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.
EARTHA KITT

Belong Black Carry Everybody Myself Person Women
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
EARTHA KITT

Bend Constant Go Know River Turn Up Where Wind
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
EARTHA KITT

Always Cast General Girl Me Naughty People See Uses
I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
EARTHA KITT

Ever Interested Really Theatre Think
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.
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Because Entertainer Color Term Thought We Are
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITT

Aging Beauty Respect Should That Wonderful
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.
EARTHA KITT

Child Effection Great Know Little Need Such Tough Whether
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!
EARTHA KITT

Accept Although Do Eartha Kitt People Reject Relationship Uncomfortable
I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
EARTHA KITT

Girl Material Original
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.
EARTHA KITT

Always Been Black Cultural Green Multi Myself Pink White
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITT

Afraid Being Life Myself Opinion Recipe Think
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.
EARTHA KITT

Always Dare Friend Give Land Men Really Said Territory
I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITT

Better Fight Myself Other People
I love men and I like to get their attention.
EARTHA KITT

Attention Get Like Love Men
In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITT

Cotton Essence Picker Sophisticate
I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT

Dancer Street
Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT

Child Even Found Survive Way
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.
EARTHA KITT

Adopt Been Family Me Only Orphan Public
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITT

Last Look Mohican Money Only
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
EARTHA KITT

Destroy Destructive Everything Greed
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 KITT

Anybody Beenm Sensitive Call Color Everybody Gal Identify never Yellow
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Live More Movie Much Television Theatre
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
EARTHA KITT

Feel Hard Live Maybe Meant Subconscious Work
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?
EARTHA KITT

Able Anything Married Not Partner Same Gender Say Share Think Together Why World
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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All Derries IT Jewelry Pain Time Watch

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