IDENTITY
Identity germinates from humiliation’s soil. Humiliation isn’t merely the basement of a personality, or the scum pile on the stairway down. Humiliation is the earlier event that paves the way for “self” to know it exists.
— Wayne Koestenbaum
another eye opens 
August 31, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Identity forged through humiliation. I’ll have to think about this.