Billy Oppenheimer

SIX at 6: Putting Ourselves Together, Not Knowing Who You Are, Mistaking Self-Exploration As Self-Expression, A Certain Kind of Personality, The Rock Tumbler Metaphor, and Harvesting Your Identity (opens in new tab)

The Way In Which One Puts Oneself Together In The Cross of Redemption, James Baldwin defines identity as “the way in which one puts oneself together.” We haphazardly cobble together an identity, he writes, piece by piece, and then at some point, we forget that we did this. We forget that the categories, labels, titles, and […] The post appeared first on . The post appeared first on .

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