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 some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato… — 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 had enough, I’d tell them of my escapades in Riverbank and in Panama where I’d worked with the Southern Baptist Convention and Jesus Christ to save the black souls of niggers, spics and Indians. I used… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share
“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 had in the late 60’s.” — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share
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