"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
— Purity

January 1, 1970

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James Baldwin "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961) republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)