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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.

Eartha Kitt

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
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North
South Carolina
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 don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.
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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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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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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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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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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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 have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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