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 was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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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.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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 wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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