Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

African-Amendment.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people, " if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

Even the Us's are Them's.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren’t sure if we were in love anymore.

I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues

We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.