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.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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.
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'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 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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
