Kathy Acker Activist Quotations

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.

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

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

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

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

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.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

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

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

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

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

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

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.

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

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.