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Kathy Acker
April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

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, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

   

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

   

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

   

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

   

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

   

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

   

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

   

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