Conscious awareness Quote by James Baldwin

““Life, it is true, is a process of decisions and alternatives, the conscious awareness and acceptance of limitations. Experience, nevertheless, to say nothing of history, seems clearly to indicate that it is not possible to banish or to falsify any human need without ourselves undergoing falsification and loss.””

James Baldwin

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“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.”

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