Kathy Acker Quotes
"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Traveling)
"I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it."
- Kathy Acker
"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Students)
"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Love, Society, Act)
"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Power, Country, Right)
"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Energy)
"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Right)
"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship, Country)
"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Now, Right)
"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Books)
"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship)
"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Right, Understanding)
"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Fear)
"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Time, Jazz, Writing)
"Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work, People)
"You can do whatever you want with my work."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work, Want)
"You know I've had work banned."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work)
"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Government, Culture, Literary, Talk)
"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Idea, Voice)
"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Body, Students)
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Expectation, Language, Trying)
"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Being, Language)
"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Men)
"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship, Media)
"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Fiction, First, Magic, Writing)
"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Voice)
"I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work)
"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work)
"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Dreams, People, Writing)
"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"
- Kathy Acker
"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Hurt)
"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Country)