S.L. Walker Quotes

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.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver

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

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"Benedict

What if I turned out to be a great kisser, and suddenly, girls everywhere wanted to kiss me? Did I really want to risk losing my free time to watch people so I could kiss every girl in town?

Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

Following the rules only takes you so far, sooner or later you have to forget them and play by your heart.

True love is still true, even if you can't live it the way you want to, " I told her.

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.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

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.

I’m saying that sometimes we don’t want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what’s ugly in ourselves.

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.

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Life lessons build strength, and life is truly A Beautiful Struggle

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

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.

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

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.

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 think you're something wonderful.

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

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

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.