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 KITTDr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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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.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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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 love men and I like to get their attention.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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