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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. "

Eartha Kitt

Living

Three

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" I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. "

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" A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject. "

" 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. "

" The audience has always been my best director. "

" Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time. "

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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. "

" If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money. "

" Even as a child, I found a way to survive. "

" I fight for other people better than I fight for myself. "

" 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. "

" I was a street dancer. "

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

" Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. "

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" Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living. "

" You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy. "

" Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. 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! "

" Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. "

" I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. "

" I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as. "

" I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. "

" I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. "

" 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? "

" Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. "

" My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. "

" I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. "

" This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment. "

" I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. "