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When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
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North
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Eartha Mae Keith
Eartha Mae Kitt
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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected
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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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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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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've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.
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