Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Baileywas an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth29 March 1918
CitySouthampton County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.