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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.

Eartha Kitt

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
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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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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.
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I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.
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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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I thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.
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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 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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I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.
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I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
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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'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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Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected
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I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?
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Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.
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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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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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