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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

Eartha Kitt

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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Because Entertainer Color Term Thought We Are
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.
EARTHA KITT

Belong Black Carry Everybody Myself Person Women
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.
EARTHA KITT

Bend Constant Go Know River Turn Up Where Wind
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.
EARTHA KITT

Child Effection Great Know Little Need Such Tough Whether
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 KITT

Anybody Beenm Sensitive Call Color Everybody Gal Identify never Yellow
I love to tease men with my legs.
EARTHA KITT

Leg Love Men My Tease With
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT

Bland Business Entertainment Generally Whole
Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
EARTHA KITT

Depend For On People Responsible You
I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
EARTHA KITT

Ever Interested Really Theatre Think
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
EARTHA KITT

Always Cast General Girl Me Naughty People See Uses
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
EARTHA KITT

Affection Afraid Eartha Nae Scared Seen Shy
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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All Derries IT Jewelry Pain Time Watch
In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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Act Critic Dangerous Fifties Use Say
You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
EARTHA KITT

Anybody Have Head Hit Myself
In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITT

Cotton Essence Picker Sophisticate
I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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Girl Material Original

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