Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTI’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Dr. 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.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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 am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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 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.
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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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