Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes
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.
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.
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.
They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.
The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.
Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.
I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.
i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.
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.
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.
Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.
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.
there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.
The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.
the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
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.