A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, do what he can to change things there.
Source: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1969.
-- Paule Marshall, (Apr 9 1929-2019), US writer, educator; She wrote The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1961 and Daughters, 1991.