I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI 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 KITTI don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
EARTHA KITTI was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITTI 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 have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITTI love men and I like to get their attention.
EARTHA KITTEven as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITTI’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 KITTGreed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
EARTHA KITTHaving my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITTI fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITTLet’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTWe’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 KITTMaybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
EARTHA KITTI used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
EARTHA KITT