People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruct…

James A. Baldwin
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. ✨ Stranger in the Village. Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin Notes of a Native Son (1955), and later quoted in Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village' by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.
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