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. ”