James Baldwin Quote

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" in Esquire (May 1961)


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

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

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

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