Kathy Acker

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

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

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

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

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

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

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.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

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 might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

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.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.