“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” IfsI CanDifferentHomeReadingBlackWhitePartyHalfSituationPoetRevolutionGayWelcomeIf I CouldTonightBlack PeopleHomosexualityHomosexualGay PrideLesbianismAnti GayAnti DiscriminationPoetry Reading Author:Pat Parker
“Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.” WorldSaidRealBlackWhiteReal LifeWelcomeSeatsPlotReal WorldBlack And White Author:John Mayer
“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldTodayHateBlackHalfLordMagicFilledWelcomeBombsAtomsSuperstitionsDoomedRottenMisguidedAtom BombBlack Magic Book:Conjure Wife Source: Conjure Wife