Pat Parker Quotes

• If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution

  Pat Parker

  Party, Reading, Home

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• The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

  Pat Parker

  Tolerance, Black, Firsts

  Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”

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