"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."
Eartha Kitt rides a bike down the street in New York City. Photographer Gordon Parks shot this for LIFE
Magazine in July, 1952.
Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to
fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able
to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in
my mind.