But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing-that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time. And now when I measure this fear against the boldness that the masters of the galaxy imparted to their own children, I am ashamed.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
[ Between the World and Me ]
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