Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

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

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

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

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.

Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

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

I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine

1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.

I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.

Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

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

Home is where you were conditioned.

the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

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.