"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"
"The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black."
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Source: Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”
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