Pat Parker Professions : Poet Born : January 20, 1944 Died : June 19, 1989 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Pat Parker 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 Pat Parker party reading home The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black. Pat Parker tolerance black firsts Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
