There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey
There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you — if you dont repeat it. – Pearl Bailey
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. – Pearl Bailey
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. – Pearl Bailey
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates