Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; f…

James A. Baldwin
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ✨ The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy. Esquire Magazine, May 1961.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ✨ The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy. Esquire Magazine, May 1961.

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