I used to teach dance lessons.
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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I was a street dancer.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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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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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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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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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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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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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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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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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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