Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference excerpt by Audre Lorde

"We have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion".

Laugh at your stupid human self (poem) by Cassie Kinney

You know you've been pushed over the edge
When you laugh hysterically after a nervous breakdown. 
I realize everyday that I am another emotionally raging--
And equally egotistical human animal that constantly battles
The duality between my rational and anxiety.
And I have to laugh
Or I'll just die crying.