Kathy Acker

"We must imagine better worlds."

"Life is a text written in pain and joy."

"I refuse to be fixed."

"Art exists in the spaces between."

"Love is the only true rebellion."

"Writing is a form of talking without being interrupted."

"If you're not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master."

"Don't fake anything. If you're going to do something, do it for real."

"The more you deny yourself, the more you want it."

"I think one of the ways art functions in society is that it provides a space for people to think about things."

"Real freedom is the freedom to say no."

"You have to be willing to be bad at something in order to be good at it."

"Language is like a virus passed from person to person."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change."

"Identity is a cage."

"The best way to make something important is to make it personal."

"If you don't have enemies, you haven't stood for anything."

"Memory is subjective. Everyone has their own version of what happened."

"To write is to engage in dialogue with the dead."

"I'd rather be a bad artist than a good politician."

"The world doesn't care about your pain unless you can make art out of it."

"Censorship is the tool of those who fear ideas."

"What matters is not what you say but what you refuse to say."

"Art should make you uncomfortable because that's when you're actually thinking."

"Love is an invention like the wheel."

"The more honest you are, the more vulnerable you become."

"Writing is a way of making sense of chaos."

"Conventional morality is just a way of controlling people."

"To be alive is to be in constant revolution."

"Society rewards conformity and punishes authenticity."