Eartha Kitt

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.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

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.

The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

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

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.

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.

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.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

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

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

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

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.

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