

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 antihomosexual, 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.
Excerpt from: Movement in Black : The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, Black Lesbian Poet and activist, working with Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center, the Black Panther Party, the Black Women’s Revolutionary Council and various LGBTQ organizations.
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