Pearl Bailey

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

You must change in order to survive.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.