I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

Its never the miles of traveling that counts, its what you have done along the way

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.