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“I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.”

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American singer, actress, and model, known for her distinctive voice and fashionable image. Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927, and passed away on December 25, 2008. She achieved significant success in music, theater, and film. more

“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“I thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.”

Thinking Ends Gone Marvelous Spears

Author:Eartha Kitt

“I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.”

Song Girl Singing Naughty Naughty Girl

Author:Eartha Kitt

“By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste in an astonishingly short period of time.”

War Periods Drug Tough Hood War On Drugs

Author:Michelle Alexander

“I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.”

Feels Dies Let Me Accepted Worthwhile Applause Let Me Go

Author:Eartha Kitt

“Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.”

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