Top 80 Eartha Kitt Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.”

— Eartha Kitt

52. “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”

— Eartha Kitt

53. “The boys that were running away from America because they didn’t want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.”

— Eartha Kitt

54. “Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.”

— Eartha Kitt

55. “Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.”

— Eartha Kitt

56. “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.”

— Eartha Kitt

57. “When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.”

— Eartha Kitt

58. “When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.”

— Eartha Kitt

59. “The public has become my fairy godmother.”

— Eartha Kitt

60. “A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.”

— Eartha Kitt

61. “I still can’t go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.”

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Eartha Kitt

63. “We’re all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.”

— Eartha Kitt

64. “The biggest family in the world is my fans.”

— Eartha Kitt

65. “I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.”

— Eartha Kitt

66. “Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.”

— Eartha Kitt

67. “I used to teach dance lessons.”

— Eartha Kitt

68. “When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America’s favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.”

— Eartha Kitt

69. “Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.”

— Eartha Kitt

70. “I don’t believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.”

— Eartha Kitt

71. “Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that’s where I was put in jail.”

— Eartha Kitt

72. “In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series.”

— Eartha Kitt

73. “I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.”

— Eartha Kitt

74. “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.”

— Eartha Kitt

75. “I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn’t have to put his name down on the certificate.”

— Eartha Kitt

76. “I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.”

— Eartha Kitt

77. “I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.”

— Eartha Kitt

78. “I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.”

— Eartha Kitt

79. “Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.”

— Eartha Kitt

80. “Even as a child, I found a way to survive.”

— Eartha Kitt

81. “I always believe in living in the country, because that’s where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.”

— Eartha Kitt

82. “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.”

— Eartha Kitt

83. “I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner’s sons. If I could prove that, I’d own the whole goddamn everything.”

— Eartha Kitt

84. “I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.”

— Eartha Kitt

85. “I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.”

— Eartha Kitt