I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITTI’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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I was a street dancer.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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 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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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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