“You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.”

“She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.”

“...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Be yourself, there is no one better.”

“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.”