I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against 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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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’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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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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’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 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?
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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