'God has taken very good care of me and I am grateful for that' Amen.

“You can be born nothing and become whatever is in your soul to do” ❤️

Ballsy Woman, beautiful, cultured, talented, kind, intelligent and the list goes on. Much love and respect for the QUEEN Eartha KITT. ❤️❤️❤️

That purr at 2:00!!! She does it like no one else.

EARTHA KITT PAID HER DUE'S. SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE DIRT POOR IN THE DEEP SOUTH OF THE CAROLINAS. CLASSY LADY SHE WAS. I HONOR THE LADY SHE WAS.

Earths had a beautiful voice and was truly a Phoenix rising. She’s so strong but yet vulnerable

I love this woman shes such a bad ass

SHE WAS SO FASCINATING💓👍🏼💟 I can spend hours listening to her! R.I.P.

I have nothing but love and respect for Eartha Kitt

She got even better looking as she got older! Stunning & talented beyond measure!

Talented Beautiful and Brave to speak Truth to Power. Bravo and Thank you Ms.Eartha Kitt ❤❤❤

After her anti-war statement at the White House in 1968, a Washington DC mandated Hollywood had turned its back on Eartha Kitt, and she in turn just said, "So What?", and did a decade long stint in Europe... Ten years later, with the Vietnam Era and all its related BS placed behind us, Hollywood and the American Stage sees Ms. Kitt's accomplishments in Europe, and begs her to return... She did because she wanted to, not had to...

What a REMARKABLE human being she was and it's appalling to think so many young people today don't have a clue who she is. Life is so strange in that sense.

the Timbuktu entrance was SPECTACULAR and can be seen on KZfaq

An extraordinary human been, a survivor against all odds, inspiring Eartha Kitt, n so much wisdom. Wish she was around among us today! ❤️ Her.

I bow with great and tremendous reverence at her Soul! Ms. Eartha Kittttttttttttttt! Thank you Ms. Kitt for such an inspiring, encouraging, exemplary and extraordinary REGAL presence! I treasure your AWEsomeness!

One of the greatest entertainer ever. I love her. First saw her when I was 11yrs old in New Faces on 1952. Wish she was still here!

Loved her. Many years ago at the Tony Awards dinner she was sitting next to me... She borrowed 2 LPs from me --- never saw them again...:LOL

Impossibly beautiful in every way possible.

I feel that this is one of the best Eartha interviews out there. So relaxed, measured and considered yet humorous and light. A fittingly remarkable interviewer for the most exciting woman in the world.

She is, incredibly, good-natured. I'm uncertain how I would've fared...I can't guess if he's interviewing her, flirting, or both.

Alan Eichler strikes gold again. I saw Eartha Kitt teach a dance class at Broadway Dance Center, all Haitian dancing. It was electrifying.

Beautiful, Facinating, wonderful lady. She is a hero for what she said about "Johnson's war."

She's the politician needed so badly today. Intelligent, articulate and a national treasure, Ms. Kitt understood race, humanity and the systems so well and was hushed, blacklisted and ignored at the time she was most needed. Dick Cavett does a wonderful job of structuring the interview to allow so many truths to come out.

So much more genuine and sincere and articulate than today's celebrities.

She was amazing And the interviewer was so fascinated!

She’s a treasure and classy legend

2020 .Eartha your loved

There's only one race...The Human Race. The rest is just the fear of different cultures. I just love Earta Kitt's boldness! Such a brave and cultured woman. ❤️

I'm so happy to hear someone from that time own being multicultural...I'm from a multi-racial family and even for us, conversations around that or tense and I hear too much of how they had to choice but to choose one side and felt they couldn't own being multicultural. It's been very frustrating, because I do own it, very strongly (being multicultural & multilingual) and don't really have anyone around me to understand that.

Just Thankful for this gr8 footage that we get a chance to see. As the "grown folk" like 2 say, I wasn't even thought about during this era. We are the Future and I am passing this knowledge down 2 future generations 💙👑 Thank you 4 making the sacrifice 2 all of our eartha kitt, Bob Marleys, nina simone and the list goes on 🙏🏽

EXQUISITE,TALENTED,GREAT,AMAZING,FANTASTIC,ELECTRIC,INTELLIGENT,LADY. WE HAVE NOTHING LIKE THIS GREAT LADY IN TODAY BORING ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

Som impressing, both of them, sweet people, Dick cavett and eartha kitt, amazing humor..

I love her wit and how she gives back the same passive aggressiveness with absolute joy and eloquence.

That Purr gives me Chills and I even purr myself

I love Eartha Kitt

Beautiful woman with great voice ❤

Love her ❤️ #fortitude

THANK YOU EARTHA FOR SPEAKING UP AND OUT FOR MIXED BLACK PPL. WHAT YOU SAID IS WHAT I TELL MY MIXED DAUGHTER WHO IS NATIVE INDIAN, BLACK, MEXICAN, & IRISH. I TELL HER ALL THE TIME NOT TO GIVE ONE DAMN WHICH RACE CLAIMS HER. IM NATIVE INDIAN, MEXICAN AND IRISH AND HAVE HAD A HELL OF A TIME WITH JUST THAT MIX ALONE. SO THROW BLACK IN IT AND ITS THAT MUCH HARDER SO SCREW THEM ALL. STAND IN YOUR POWER I TELL HER, LOVE YOURSELF, GOD AND ALWAYS BE KIND TO YOURSELF. DO NOT COMFORM TO ANY RACES BULLSHIT LET THEM GRAVEL IN IT THEIR F SELVES. ACCEPTING YOURSELF IS ALL THAT MATTERS EARTHA KITT IS PROOF.

God I love this woman ! She was a genius ! They are both cute here, I sense love in the air between them. Am I the only one?

I miss her 😟

Just wonderful! What an amazing lady!

I was fortunate enough to see her in this production 3 times before it closed. I wish there was a cast album!

Brilliant woman

Thanks for the upload. This was great

God.shes gorgeous!

her cabaret show in the eightys was fabulous !!!!

Disappointed at how the government has fallen down...I'm still waiting for the 40 acres and mule! Wow!

One of the All Time great entertainers. This was a horrible introduction for a Star like Ms. Kitt. To have her just sitting there, waiting, While Cavett prattled on and on. She deserved much better.

A-mazing woman!!

The goat period👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑 rest in paradise❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Eye opening. I wish I had seen this 43 years ago. Buffy Ste.-Marie was also blocked from the air-waves at the time Ms. Kitt was.

That laugh! June Allyson laughed the same way in her own interview with DC.

love this interview so much

She did an opening from Timbuktu on the Merv Griffin show it was spectacular nothing can compared to it now she will be missed

The airdate was March 1, 1978.

I've seen her tell this story to other host, they always look incredulous as if they don't believe her because they can't relate, oh yes it's true, millions lived like she described in great US of A

She was always so happy even at 80 I saw recently wow awesome way to be ❤

You can say whatever you want about Valentina, but her Snatch Game on AS4 brought me here and now I'm obsessed with Eartha Kitt! ❤️

Love Love Love Eartha

Based lady. People now: Observe, understand and take notes. I know I am

Eartha Kitt and Rue Mclanahan look so much alike!

I love you Eartha 🤲🏽🤍✨!!

Some of his questions were ass, but she took care of herself.

her way of talking was so quaint, cute and intriguing!!!! that may sound weird but I hope you know what I mean....

Miss Kitt

Rip Angel ❤️

America hasn’t changed a bit. We are still having the same conversations decade after decade! Ugh

It's a bit concerning how She was blacklisted.

ONE of mu heroes along with Muhammad Ali..pam grier..harriett tubman. Sojourner TRUTH..dianna ross...maya angelou...zora neal..marian mcloid mthune. Terry McMillan...tyler Perry..spike lee ..obamas ..Dr Martin Luther king...ect ECT

👸👍👍

Leonard Bernstein wasn’t credited at all for the “kicky” opening (and closing) musc

$20 a ticket!!! Where's my time machine? ($300 balcony seats for Hugh Jackman in Music Man!

I would love to it if they could have done ancestry DNA on her to find her family.

5:20. ??? What was he implying???

dear dick cavett thanks for a eartha interview after i read converstons with eartha kitt kendra bethune not my mother sandra bethune kay wilson when i almost completed the book of me kendra bethune

I dont like this guy, at all. But Im grateful he did this interview with her so we can hear her beautiful voice!

Wouldn't it be amazing if DNA ancestry was around then

I didn't know she had such hard upbringing...

Sound too low to hear it properly.

Makes a strong man weak in the knees.

5:30 😭

The sad things is, she was probably broke during this interview.

5:20 wat in the Hell did he just try to imply

She was about 48here

“Set in Black Africa” 👀

Fast-forward to 2022 and we all need to fear our government because if we don't agree with them the alternative is very negative under the current regimen of Beijing Biden and Company

Eartha is so sweet, but she looks like James brown.

Set in “black” Africa???🤔🤨🧐

He was trying to make her out to be a bitter black woman and he failed epically.

His posture and demeanor seem so disrespectful to her.

He said "Set in black Africa"...the whole of Africa is black, except where territory was stolen...like every other such place on the world, that has been migrated to and to and claimed...of course, this is the 70's, not too much awareness & political correctness.

She looks so refined, but then she opens her mouth and all that 'ghetto' comes out....not. How is it that someone who had little or no education can communicate so well, and today I listen to some so-called artists who have had the benefit of formal education, but can hardly utter a word without it being an expletive?