A biography for Eartha Kitthasn’t been written yet.
“I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.”
“I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.”
“I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.”
“I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.”
“I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?”
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.”
“I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.”
“Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.”
“I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.”
“I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.”
“I was considered an ugly duckling.”
“Even as a child, I found a way to survive.”
“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.”
“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.”
“I love to tease men with my legs.”
“People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.”