Identity's First Cycle of Signifiers from Truman Lee Rich's "Brunch at the Kennedy Compound" (n.d.)

"I am a woman," the woman says to the man, "so you can't understand."

"Ah, I am a woman too," says the woman the man arrived with, "but you are a white woman and I am a Black woman."

"Yes," says an eavesdropping Black woman to the first Black woman, "but you are a wealthy Black woman and I am, as you can see, serving hors d'oeuvres for the company catering this event."

"Ah," says a third Black woman descending from the Heavens of History, "but I am a poor blind Black woman, so you can't possibly see what I have seen."