“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”
Quote by Pat Parker
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Pat Parker
Pat Parker was an American poet, born on January 20, 1944, and died on June 19, 1989. Known for her profound social and political commentary, Parker's poetry often addressed issues of race, gender, and class, reflecting her experiences as an African American woman in 20th-century American society. more
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