"If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, â€˜No, you stay home tonight, you wonâ€™t be welcomeâ€™/ because Iâ€™m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or Iâ€™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

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