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Oscar Zeta Acosta Quotes

b. 1935

Oscar Zeta Acosta (April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was an American attorney, politician, novelist and Chicano Movement activist.

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The truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972)

I was twenty-one and without God. I had no one to love me and no one for me to love. Since there was no after-life, what then did it matter? I leaned forward, ready to lurch to my doom.

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972)

He introduced me to all the intellectuals at S.F. State and convinced me I should be a writer since I had so many fucking stories to tell. Little did he know I was scared shitless of all those guys with the tweed coats and fancy pipes.

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Zeta Acosta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.