Kathy Acker

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

— Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

— Kathy Acker

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

— Kathy Acker

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

— Kathy Acker

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

— Kathy Acker

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

— Kathy Acker

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

— Kathy Acker

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

— Kathy Acker

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

— Kathy Acker

“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.”

— Kathy Acker

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

— Kathy Acker

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

— Kathy Acker

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

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

— Kathy Acker

“Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world.”

— Kathy Acker

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

— Kathy Acker

Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting…

— Kathy Acker

“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and…

— Kathy Acker

“Education,’ one of R’s teachers taught, ‘teaches you not to be yourself.’ But who is yourself? R decided if it or he…

— Kathy Acker

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its…

— Kathy Acker

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was…

— Kathy Acker

“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.”

— Kathy Acker

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in…

— Kathy Acker

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All…

— Kathy Acker

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become…

— Kathy Acker

“Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her,…

— Kathy Acker

“After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to…

— Kathy Acker

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS…

— Kathy Acker

Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the…

— Kathy Acker

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by…

— Kathy Acker

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been…

— Kathy Acker

“Let me put it another way. Most people are what they sense and if all you see day after day is a…

— Kathy Acker

One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects,…

— Kathy Acker

“TODAY I THINK MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HELL IS OVER. It was hell, the ancient hell. Hell: I believed that if I loved…

— Kathy Acker

“R wrote Delahaye about all that had happened to him and about what he, R, wanted: My friend, You’re eating white flour…

— Kathy Acker

“They had not, under the heavens and on earth, one single weapon. They don't control the land they live on, the schools…

— Kathy Acker

“This is the story of V and me. Look. Each person has the possibilities of being simultaneously several beings, having several lives.…

— Kathy Acker

“INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD Janey dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has…

— Kathy Acker

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever…

— Kathy Acker

“All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and…

— Kathy Acker