"You can't really know where you are..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”

“Therefore we pledge to bindourselves to one another, to embraceour lowliest, to keep company withour loneliest, to educate our illiterate,to feed our starving, to clothe ourragged, to do all good things,knowing that we are more thankeepers of our brothers and sisters.We are our brothers and sisters”

“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.”

“In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”

“Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.”

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”

“I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate.”

“The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us”