Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Ackerwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
american-activist censor work
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
american-activist
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
american-activist country internal
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.
above american-activist found generation writers
You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.
writing expression machines
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.
moving water seems
The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.
people want middle
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
writing connections language
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
worry poverty hunger
Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.
hands mind causes
...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...
heaven choices gathering
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
half body piercings
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
goal world way
LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.
unbearable nonsense reactions
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.