Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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 used to teach dance lessons.
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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 love to tease men with my legs.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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