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It is not easy even with consciousness to discard the environmental trappings that accompany most art forms. Most of us still expect to see classical musicians in white blouses and long black skirts-but we are changing and growing.

— Pat Parker Poetry at Women's Music Festivals: Oil and Water (1986)

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People, get ready! If you are racist, sexist, classist, or homophobic, my child is going to think you are strange.

Gay Parenting, Or, Look Out, Anita (1987)

In order for revolution to be possible, and revolution is possible, it must be led by the poor and working class people of this country.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

No matter how much preparation, education, and counseling, sixteen-year old children are not ready for childbirth.

Gay Parenting, Or, Look Out, Anita (1987)

We must also define our friends and enemies based on their stand on imperialism.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

Before and after armed revolution there must be education, and analysis, and struggle. If not, and even if so, one will be faced with coups, counterrevolution and revision.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

George MacDonald The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

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