Kathy Acker

"The body is political."

"We are all works in progress."

"Imagination is more real than reality."

"To persist is to resist."

"The self is always already a stranger."

"Words are weapons and shields."

"Love is the only revolution worth fighting."

"I create therefore I am."

"Truth is dangerous and beautiful."

"The world is too much with us."

"Art is a refusal to accept the unacceptable."

"To be free is to be alone."

"We are shaped by what we read."

"Hope is the cruelest emotion."

"Death is the only certainty."

"The powerful write history."

"I write to avenge the dead."

"Beauty emerges from destruction."

"Love without authenticity is exploitation."

"Art speaks the unspeakable."

"We are all complicit in injustice."

"Time heals nothing, it only covers scars."

"The self is a performance."

"Courage is knowing you might fail and doing it anyway."

"I write to make myself real."

"Love is anarchic."

"Art is a weapon against forgetting."

"The body never lies."

"To change is to risk everything."

"Knowledge without action is empty."