"If you are always trying to be..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.”

“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”

“If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”

“I am not an American. I am the American.”

“I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.”

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”

“Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.”