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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. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. March 1918 – 17. August 1990
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Famous Pearl Bailey Quotes

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”

Pearl Bailey

Quoted in Criminal Minds Season 8, November 2012

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

Pearl Bailey

Weekly World News, 25 Apr 2005 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3PMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51&dq=%22What+the+world+really+needs+is+more+love+and+less+paper+work.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-2H5TsbNEcWj8QO14oC5AQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22What%20the%20world%20really%20needs%20is%20more%20love%20and%20less%20paper%20work.%22&f=false

“You can taste a word.”

Pearl Bailey

Quoted in Newsweek, 4 December 1967

“People see God every day. They just don't recognize Him.”

Pearl Bailey

talking to a New York Times reporter in 1967

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