Eartha Kitt on love and compromise

[redqueen]

I posted a reaction gif taken from this and I thought it would be nice to share the whole thing for anyome who hasn't seen it.

[ismnotwasm]

1. "I want someone to share me--with me"

Damn she's badass.

[redqueen]

2. She so is.

I want all girls and women to have this attitude about relationships.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Yup

And to be able to belly laugh like that---gorgeous

[redqueen]

4. Yes!

I'm really enjoying showing my daughters by example. Loving myself, laughing often, and never settling, nor prioritizing men or relationships!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. and in return

loves himself and wants to share himself with me.

this would be the optimum.

the self aware sharing in wholeness of each other.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Exactly

[seabeyond]

9. yup. nt

[redqueen]

7. related:

“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”

For Women Who are Difficult to Love - Warsan Shire

[seabeyond]

10. i love this. this.... is excellent. nt

[seabeyond]

8. fall in love. what is there to compromise about. fall in love with myself

and someone to share it with me.

it really is profound and a shift, and a truth in itself if flexible enough

[DURHAM D]

11. Eartha is bad ass.

I remember so well when she picked a fight with LBJ over the war. It damaged her career. Here is a link to her wiki entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha_Kitt

Anti-war controversy[edit]In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon.[10][11] Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."

During a question and answer session, Kitt stated:

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson — we raise children and send them to war.
Her remarks reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt's career.[12] The public reaction to Kitt's statements was extreme, both pro and con. Publicly ostracized in the US, she devoted her energies to performances in Europe and Asia.

[ismnotwasm]

12. Love this

She's an incredible woman

[DURHAM D]

13. Yes she was and all the more so when you realize

how it all began.

Kitt's mother was of Cherokee and African-American descent and her father of German descent. Kitt was conceived by rape.

Kitt was raised by Anna Mae Riley, an African-American woman whom she believed to be her mother. Anna Mae went to live with a black man when Eartha was aged eight. He refused to accept Kitt because of her relatively pale complexion. Kitt lived with another family until Riley's death. She was then sent to live in New York City with Mamie Kitt, who she learned was her biological mother. She had no knowledge of her father, except that his surname was Kitt and that he was supposedly a son of the owner of the farm where she had been born. Newspaper obituaries state that her white father was "a poor cotton farmer".

[ismnotwasm]

14. Wow

I didn't know her background.

You know is weird how often rape or molestation plays a role or is a part of successful or formidable women. Even Madonna is on some magazine cover with her own rape story in the article.