I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

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.

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 am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

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.

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.

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.