"We're not thought of in terms of color……" — Eartha Kitt
"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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69 Quotes by Eartha Kitt
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I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to…
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The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink…
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You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take…
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The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We…
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in…
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask…
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A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.
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As the Batman TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to…
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In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales…
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