In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITTI stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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 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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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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 love to tease men with my legs.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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 was a street dancer.
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