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I have to keep testing myself.

Eartha Kitt

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
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
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
EARTHA KITT

All Derries IT Jewelry Pain Time Watch
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 KITT

Away Come Everybody Give Life Mother
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT

Bland Business Entertainment Generally Whole
I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITT

Better Fight Myself Other People
I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT

Consider Duckling Ugly
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
EARTHA KITT

Feel Hard Live Maybe Meant Subconscious Work
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
I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT

Dancer Street
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
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITT

Animal Being Children Exercise Feel Have Want
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.
EARTHA KITT

Because Entertainer Color Term Thought We Are
I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
EARTHA KITT

Ever Interested Really Theatre Think
I have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITT

Have Keep Myself Test
In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
EARTHA KITT

Act Critic Dangerous Fifties Use Say

I have to keep testing myself.

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