Eartha Kitt

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

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.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

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.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.