Kathy Acker Quotes

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going in. I'm a perfectionist and I want to be truthful to my beliefs, if you know what I mean.

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.