The Orange Is The New Black star and host of MTV’s upcoming The T Word sat down with BuzzFeed to share the novels that are necessary for anyone’s reading list.
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Confessions Of A Sex Kitten, Eartha Kitt
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Confessions Of A Sex Kitten was so major. Eartha Kitt is a huge possibility idol for me. The thing about women like Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carroll — these black artists in the '40s, '50s, and '60s — they were making a way out of no way. Eartha's book, the first paragraph of it I was bawling. It's just so deep! Her love life I can so relate to as a trans woman. She dated a lot of white men, who dated her privately. They would never date her openly or marry her. That's something I can certainly relate to as a trans woman. She is brilliant and amazing and sexy and smart and political! She was blacklisted for like 10 years. Eartha Kitt is everything, may she rest in peace.
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