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
Pearl Bailey quotes about
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
You must change in order to survive.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
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.
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
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.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Fate carries its own clock.
I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.