Kitt: "I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself."

Kitt: "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."

Kitt: "My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."

Kitt: "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."

Kitt: "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."

Kitt: "You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words."

Kitt: "You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy."

Kitt: "I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself."

Kitt: "I have to keep testing myself."

Kitt: "I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?"

Kitt: "Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty."

Kitt: "A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject."

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

Kitt: "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."

Kitt: "I am the original 'Material Girl.'"

Kitt: "I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil."

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

Kitt: "This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment."

Kitt: "Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything."