Kathy Acker Quotes

• Traveling around I don’t think people are that horrible, I think they just don’t know.

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• 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.

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• I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

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• I mean, they censor your work when they’re scared of it.

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• I mean, once work’s out there it’s meant to be used.

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• I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

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• Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in People

• You can do whatever you want with my work.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Whatever

• 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.

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  Tags in Jazz, Rhythm

• Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Pervasive

• We’ve been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

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  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Right Wing, Things, Understanding

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Major, Censorship, Minor, Sorts, Uglier, Something, Know

• There’s a backlash against womyn that’s really bad right now.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backlash, Right

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Examine, Literary

• That’s what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right Wing, Left Wing, Good

• Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Surface, Act, Lived

• I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.

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  Tags in Students, Staid

• I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it to remember it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Remember

• I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Students, Female, Body

Kathy Acker (34)

Birth:	18th April, 1947
Death:	30th November, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Poet

About

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

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