Kathy Acker Quotes

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.