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
sex men night
Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
stuff energy yogi
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
home pirate soul
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.
humility pride practice
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
language
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
order people insane
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.
rotten world legs
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
mind
Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
book secret bother
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
dog powerful believe
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.
our-world bird together
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
banned knows
You know I've had work banned.
mean want innocent
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
way censorship bandwagon
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.