Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

17-Jan-1927


United States


Activist

Born in 1927 in South Carolina, Eartha Kitt became famous in Paris as a nightclub singer, and then returned to the U.S. To appear in films and on Broadway. His 1953 recording of "Santa Baby" is still popular today. In the 1960s, Kitt played a recurring role as Catkazi on the Batman TV show, but her career slowed down after criticizing the Vietnam War during lunch with Lady bird Johnson.

QUOTES BY Eartha Kitt


I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

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.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

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