The Revolt of the Cockroach People Quotes

“LA VIDA NO ES LA QUE VIVIMOS.
LA VIDA ES EL HONOR Y EL RECUERDO.
POR ESO MAS VALE MORIR
CON EL PUEBLO VIVO,
Y NO VIVIR
CON EL PUEBLO MUERTO.

Life is not as it seems,
Life is pride and personal history.
Thus it is better that one die
and that the people should live,
rahter than one live
and the people should die.

~Lopitos”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“A hippie is like a cockroach. So are the beatniks. So are the Chicanos. We’re all around, Judge. And judges do not pick us to serve on Grand Juries”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“It seemed that twenty-five thousand Chicanos had marched down Whittier Boulevard. But what had started as a protest against the burning of peasants in Vietnam turned into a massive public declaration by fire of their own existence”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“Here a young girl in high heels wears a bikini, a blue bikini, with blonde hair. Standing next to her is a girl as young as Rosalie, in a mini-skirt and a strap over her little red nipples”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“The broads are fantastic…the bulging breasts of these savage wenches who move with graceful twists. Since I have come to L.A. I have not touched a woman of my own culture. I swallow my milk and feel my pants bursting with heat”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“…my new name, Buffalo Zeta Brown. General Zeta was the hero of an old movie classic…A combination of Zapata and Villa and Maria Felix as the femme fatale”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People

“We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam”
― Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People