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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Eartha Kitt

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Voice Actor
North
South Carolina
Eartha Mae Keith
Eartha Mae Kitt
Picker
Cotton
Sophisticated
Essence

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I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
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I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.
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I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.
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I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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.
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Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.
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I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.
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A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
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I'm very happy with what the gods have given me. I take life as she presents herself to me, and whatever you see in my face is what I have earned.
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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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Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.
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I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected
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Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
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The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.
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Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.
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I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.
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