I believe in respecting people's struggles, big or small.

I believe in doing things for myself, in always learning, in decided what I believe on my own.

I believe in putting myself at risk, in facing my fears, in turning pain into beauty. I believe that beauty will be convulsive or will not be.

I believe whiteness is a reactionary hallucination. I'm not white: I'm Irish, Norwegian, and Choctaw. I believe race is a social construct with very real consequences.

I believe through capitalism slavery is alive and well in the world. I believe in the end of money, and in the end of the filthy rich.

I believe in ownership based on need, in a society that broadens our choices, not one that reduces them. I believe the state does more harm than good, and that it shouldn't have a monopoly on violence. I believe violence is a necessity for transforming the world, for changing life.

I believe we have a right to roam. Frontiers are everywhere. I believe in walking, in wandering through the streets, penetrating forbidden zones and neighborhoods in search of the Marvelous.

I believe in play, in childhood, where real life comes first; in black humor and laughing at death; in suicide and treason.

I believe in total revolt, complete insubordination.

I believe in criticism as a means of personal knowledge, in a revolution of thought, where communication between the ego and the id no longer has to be kept secret. I believe in the freedom of the mind and imagination.

I believe art should be used to change reality, not represent it, and that poems can act as spells. I believe the revolution will be poetic or will not be. I believe in poetry made by all, beyond the poem, outside the realm of literature.

I believe in finding that fugitive point where all hierarchies and antinomies are abolished.

I believe domestication and civilization remove us from things we need.

I believe in a total liberation, not just of humanity but all species. I believe in frogs, in wasps, and in mastodons.

I believe in shape shifting, invisibility, and camouflage.

I believe in spots of power, in ruins, beaches, rivers, forests, rock formations, Mount Saint Helens, and the ocean, that great strange attractor.

I believe in the importance of phone calls from strangers, of chance events, of found objects, of getting lost, of Rimbaud's derangement of the senses, of graffiti, of the writing on the wall.

I believe in sacrilege, madness, emotions, and wildness; in mythologies, memories, lies, fantasies, and evasions; in theft and plagiarism.

I believe in destroying whatever makes a passionate life impossible.

I believe love is passionate and intense, not some air freshener you spray around, and that fidelity requires inspiration.

I believe in throwing off the internalized sexual stigma, not to heartless sex, but to subjectified sexual exploration.

I believe both womanliness and manliness are masquerades, institutional facts posing as brute ones. I believe in a movement away from sexual polarization and the prison of gender towards a world in which individual roles and the modes of personal behavior can freely be constructed. I believe the self resonating within me is entirely at odds with what bourgeois culture works to inscribe on my flesh.

I believe thought has no sex.

I believe in Hermaphroditus, Tiresias, and Loplop; in Harpo Marx, Boris Karloff, and Darby Crash; in pataphysicians, mad scientists, and the Unbearables; in Joyce Mansour, the Portuguese Nun, and Blind Willie McTell.

I believe in a total assault on bourgeois culture by any means necessary, including rock n' roll, dope and fucking in the streets. I believe music is revolution, as is noise and excess.

I believe in losing myself in whiskey and dancing and dreaming. Like Baudelaire I believe we must always be drunk.

I believe revolution is made in spite of the specialists of revolution, that the most potent revolution happens outside the library or war zone.

I believe in a culture that meets our needs and desires, where we can live lucid, uninhabited lives.

I believe in surrealism, anarchism, and communism.

I believe in the Sasquatch.

I believe in black cats.

I believe in the night.