The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.
Eartha Kitt
Born: January 17, 1927 Died: December 25, 2008
Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, dancer, voice actress, comedienne, activist author, and songwriter known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby", both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".
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I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
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A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.
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, when asked what tricks her poodle did.
I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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.
"…still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. "I don't know what the feeling of love is really like. I don't know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.