“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
“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.” PeopleWorldEndsGuyTurnsUniverseBlackWhitePoorRepublicanGayFemaleSickBrownBlack PeopleDeclineArrogantEntitledStubbornPoor PeoplePlagueSelectRefusalGay PeopleDroughtWhite GuysBossyUptightSmallpoxConquistadorsMayans Author:Maureen Dowd
“You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.” PeopleUseStrongCausesBlackCommunityRightsRight NowGayHatsBlack PeopleHomosexualGay CommunityHats OffUse To Be Author:Tyrese Gibson
“The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.” PeopleMeanSufferingSpeakBlackPoorConditionsBrotherTruth IsGayBlack PeopleTransgenderWidowsOrphan Author:Cornel West
“"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.” PeopleHumansBlackHuman BeingsConditionsGreatnessGayRacistBlack PeopleGay People Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay people or trans people, you'll realize that those are just labels, that underneath it all we're all the same people, we all have the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same desires, that we all share the same values.” PeopleShouldDesireValuesBlackPresidentRealizingShareGayJewLabelsAspirationBlack PeopleTransGay People Author:Reza Aslan
“The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly became abortion on demand, gay marriage, rights for the homeless, etc.” PeopleHelpingCareBlackGayDemocratCivil RightsAbortionBlack PeopleHomelessGay Marriage Author:Ann Coulter
“I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking on eggshells, and you get the moral preening from white liberals who don't actually even know any black people. But, oh, do they love to get on their high horses and accuse Republicans of being racist for opposing very liberal government policies and a very liberal Democratic president. It's an extension of the civil rights label being slapped on gay marriage and abortion. Allow me to be bi-partisan for a moment, and love this moment because it won't last long.” PeopleLongMomentsBlackPresidentMoralPolicyWalkingRepublicanGayHorseDemocraticCivil RightsBarackAbortionRacistBlack PeopleGay MarriageMorose Author:Ann Coulter
“I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.” PeopleHumansBlackGayFemaleLiberationBlack PeopleGay PeopleGay Pride Author:Richard Pryor
“There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.” PeopleMenBlackWhiteGayIgnorantBlack PeopleMen WomenGay PeopleHispanicMessed Up Author:Marlon Wayans