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You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

James A. Baldwin
Intelligent, Realizing, Trouble
"James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick". Interview with Julius Lester, The New York Times, May 27, 1984.
You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.