“Ginsberg and those coffee houses with hungry-looking guitar players never did mean shit to me. They never took their drinking seriously.” — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“It seemed that twenty-five thousand Chicanos had marched down Whittier Boulevard. But what had started as a protest against the burning of peasants in… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“…my new name, Buffalo Zeta Brown. General Zeta was the hero of an old movie classic…A combination of Zapata and Villa and Maria Felix… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“All through schools, jobs, and bumming, I haven’t even held the hand of a Mexican woman, excepting whores who are all the same anyhow” — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers” — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject. — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“shit, I’ll show these fuckers! We’ll see who can take fucking drugs. Do they realize who I am? Don’t you know I can eat… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“Since I was about ten years younger than this crew of alcoholics, I just listened and filled their cups with cheap wine. After they’d… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die.…… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“We drove it to the panhandle to listen to Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead in the first round of those Love-Ins the hippies… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
