Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

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

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

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

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

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

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.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

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

Even the Us's are Them's.

It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.

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.

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.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

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

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

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

i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

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.

One day you will be the only one in the room not living.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

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

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

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.

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

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.