"I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement."

“One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.”

“Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”

“I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.”

“I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.”

“All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.”

“There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.”

“GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”

Source : Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.265, Grove Press