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
hurt thinking people
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
humility pride practice
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
banned knows
You know I've had work banned.
expectations trying kind
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
language
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
stuff energy yogi
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
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.
book secret bother
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
desire female different
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
men atheism world
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
order battle would-be
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.
book people
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
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.
airplane past night
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.