Chavis Quotes & Sayings

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me. — Boozoo Chavis

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me. — Boozoo Chavis

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. — Boozoo Chavis

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. — Mary MacLane

I want you naked, Angie. Naked and bound and wet for me. I want your legs wide and your body exposed. I want to see you. Hell, I want to feast on you. I want my mouth on you, my tongue driving you mad. I don't want you to know a goddamn thing except me and the pleasure I bring you. And I want to watch the way your eyes go bright when I finally let you come. — J. Kenner

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth. — Boozoo Chavis

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once. — Oliver Goldsmith

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention. — Earl Scruggs

I will always encounter obstacles, and I can either be stopped by them or learn to overcome them. — Bryan M. Chavis

throw your grain into the sea and it will come back to you — Thabiso Monkoe

I think Dante would agree with you. Even though Beatrice married someone else and died young, Dante loved her his entire life. The love was a part of him, because to him, Beatrice was ideal. He barely knew her, had only met her twice, but yet he truly claimed to love her. Can anyone tell me why?"No one spoke up. Carmine sighed exasperatedly. This lesson was becoming frustrating to sit through. "Because he really loved the person she made him. It has just as much to do with how he felt as it did with who she was.""You're right," Mrs. Chavis said. "Dante said of her, 'she has ineffable courtesy, is my beatitude, the destroyer of all vices and the queen of virtue, salvation.' To him, she was his savior, the epitome of good. She rid him of his evil, made him feel worthwhile. That, we could argue, may be what he loved most of all. — J.M. Darhower

We use people and love things, when we should love people and use things — Ben Chavis

Currently, his clients include the victims of a series of "Houdini-handcuff suicide killings," in which brown boys were handcuffed in the back of the police car and police claim they committed suicide: Victor White in Louisiana, Chavis Carter in Arkansas. Also Alesia Thomas of Los Angeles, a black woman who died after a police officer kicked her seven times in the crotch - there's a video the court will not release for fear of another Rodney King riot. — Anonymous

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. — Boozoo Chavis