Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. – Eartha Kitt
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that. – Eartha Kitt
Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. – Eartha Kitt
I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land. – Eartha Kitt
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment. – Eartha Kitt
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. – Eartha Kitt
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. – Eartha Kitt
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as. – Eartha Kitt