Top 73 Bey Quotes
#2. And if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)
June Jordan
#3. Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#4. I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#5. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#6. He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#8. He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way."~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#9. Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#12. Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#13. You Know love when you see it, hear it, and feel it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#14. He pulled Tom closer to deepen the kiss; there were things that Balsaros craved that he could not inflict on Jon, and finally the drought was over.
Bey Deckard
#15. People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
Dawoud Bey
#16. A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Hakim Bey
#17. Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb
Bey Deckard
#18. The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Hakim Bey
#19. Stay on the right path. If what you want is meant to be, then it will be.
Deatri King-Bey
#20. The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
Hakim Bey
#22. Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.
Hakim Bey
#23. When it finally came up over the battered Baal's Heart, the sun shone down on a sadly diminished crew. Three men were dead from injuries sustained aboard, and another five were missing. Tom was numbered among those presumed swept overboard by the fury of the storm.
Bey Deckard
#24. You control what path you take. Keep doing the right thing and handling the things within your control, and God will take care of the things that are out of your control. Everything will work out as it should.
Deatri King-Bey
#25. Would he be able to kill when the procedure was done? He took a sip of the bitter coffee, swallowing it down along with his trepidation. It was his obsession that he wanted to remove, not his ability.
Bey Deckard
#26. I'm gonna ask ye ladies a question, and I bloody expect to be answered," he growled. "Who's the scoundrel been doin' some unwanted rootin' of yer cunts for pay?
Bey Deckard
#27. Everything is going to be all right. Just give it time, and you'll see.
Deatri King-Bey
#28. I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ...
Dawoud Bey
#29. One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
Hakim Bey
#30. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...
Hakim Bey
#31. My past is unimportant. It is what the future holds for me that will be my salvation - and that is the love of two broken creatures that I cherish more than life itself.
Bey Deckard
#32. Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.
Hakim Bey
#33. Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
Hakim Bey
#34. Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!
Hakim Bey
#35. Is it love? I don't know," he said truthfully. "Sometimes I think I'm just addicted to him. Or that he's cast some kind of horrible curse on me where I'm to follow him for the rest of my life, doomed to fall for his lies over and over again.
Bey Deckard
#36. Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.
Lois Aileen Bey
#37. Make me understand."
Baltsaros pressed his lips together and shook his head once.
"Jon... You can't understand.
Bey Deckard
#38. Does it occur to you that maybe you've burned me out? That I no longer care whether what you spout is truth or lie?
Bey Deckard
#39. And love. Yes, he was a man loved, wasn't he?
Bey Deckard
#40. Stop worrying about what might not happen and allow what is to be.
Deatri King-Bey
#41. To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
Hakim Bey
#42. Only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.
Hakim Bey
#43. I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions, spectacular lies.
Hakim Bey
#44. See, I'm a big guy. I'm just about 6'8 in my boots. A slab of muscle on a frame that's almost comically large....
"So, are you completely proportionate?"
It takes me a second, maybe two, before I realize that he's asking whether I'm packing a peashooter or a rocket launcher in my shorts.
Bey Deckard
#45. Tom is dangerous, he reminded himself. He means you no good.
Bey Deckard
#46. The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real
but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
Hakim Bey
#47. Improvisational things about picture-making ... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
Dawoud Bey
#48. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.
Deatri King-Bey
#49. Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.
Hakim Bey
#50. The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.
Deatri King-Bey
#51. Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness ... against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
Hakim Bey
#52. Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
Dawoud Bey
#53. Why does everyone hit me in the face? Ain't I ugly enough?
Bey Deckard
#54. Stop wasting prayer on things you don't need help with. Prayers aren't for wants. They are for giving thanks. God will supply the needs that you cannot obtain on your own by default, so there is no need to ask. Just thank.
Deatri King-Bey
#55. Jon had seen the lie immediately for what it was: diplomacy. He had a feeling that, given the chance, Tom would hold him close every night. Instead, the first mate chose to distance himself so as not to interfere with the captain's affection for Jon. A sacrifice.
Bey Deckard
#56. Baltsaros's face was flushed, his lip curled into a slight sneer as he stared back at Jon. He felt a rush of adrenaline as he realized what the captain wanted from him.
"Hit him again," Jon said. "And don't hold back this time.
Bey Deckard
#57. Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
Hakim Bey
#58. If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
Hakim Bey
#59. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water
Hakim Bey
#61. Without a thought about what would happen to me if I lost you.
Bey Deckard
#62. Sometimes you have to call people out. Do that a time or two, and they learn pretty quickly how dangerous mirrors are. They rarely like seeing themselves.
Deatri King-Bey
#63. Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.
Hakim Bey
#64. In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
Hakim Bey
#65. As his step crossed the threshold, he left behind his weaknesses and doubts, finally setting aside the boy to become the man he had to be.
Bey Deckard
#66. If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.
Dawoud Bey
#67. While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
Dawoud Bey
#68. Feeling his heart swell in his chest, Baltsaros looked fiercely at Jon, and the dark-haired man frowned at him. "What is it?" asked Jon, his voice alarmed. Baltsaros licked his lips and swallowed. "I'm just so very glad you're alive, Jon. So very glad," he said softly. "You are my everything.
Bey Deckard
#69. You two will have to stop grinning at each other like newlyweds," said Baltsaros, his dark eyes narrow. "Tom's a slave and you're my nephew. Act accordingly.
Bey Deckard
#70. There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.
Hakim Bey
#71. Opening his lips over Tom's cockhead, he closed his eyes, working his tongue in lazy circles and prodding the tip of it against the bundle of nerves beneath the smooth, swollen glans. Despite
Bey Deckard
#72. I ain't going to kiss ye, poppet. Just keep still like a good little lad.
Bey Deckard
#73. Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
Hakim Bey
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