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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

James A. Baldwin
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"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.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.