Kathy Acker

"Truth requires the courage to speak what cannot be said."

"Memory is a text that rewrites itself with each reading."

"To love is to risk everything."

"The margins contain the seeds of revolution."

"Creativity requires the death of the old self."

"Language is the site of power struggle."

"To be free, you must first understand your chains."

"The body is political. All body is political."

"Silence is complicity."

"Writing is therapy without the therapist."

"Identity is a verb, not a noun."

"Art breaks the rules so we can see them."

"Meaning is made through struggle and repetition."

"The most dangerous person is the one who has nothing to lose."

"To create is to take responsibility for your thoughts."

"Desire drives narrative, and narrative drives desire."

"The personal archive is the only history that matters."

"Freedom is the space between the story and the self."

"Love is the act of choosing someone despite everything."

"The avant-garde is simply honesty taken seriously."

"To understand power, study its margins."

"Pathos is the only truth that matters."

"Writing is the art of making the invisible visible."

"The self dissolves in the space of authentic encounter."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it's continuing despite."

"Every text contains the seeds of its own destruction."

"To be alive is to be implicated in systems of power."

"Language is a map of power relationships."

"Art that doesn't risk something is not art."

"The self is always already alienated from itself."