Eartha Kitt Quotes

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

I have a cat named Dandelion.

A harmless necessary cat.

My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

All cats love a cushioned couch.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are.

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. I'd half-awaken. He'd stick his skull under my nose and purr, stinking of urine and blood. Some nights he kneaded my bare chest with his front paws, powerfully, arching his back, as if sharpening his claws, or pummeling a mother for milk. And some mornings I'd wake in daylight to find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I'd been painted with roses.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.