Pearl Bailey Actor
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Mar 29, 1918
- Died: Aug 17, 1990
Pearl Mae Bailey was 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.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
truth
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
love & work
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.
morning
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
learning
You must change in order to survive.
change
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
knowledge
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
God