Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes & Sayings

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other. — Darnell Lamont Walker

My relationships failed because i never showed up to the wars i didn't feel like fighting. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes. — Darnell Lamont Walker

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I hope god isn't always watching - there are a few things i want to surprise him with - you being one of them. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Some of you are eternal doormen. holding the door open for those who are headed out into greatness. I thank you for that. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

My ideas fuck like rabbits. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop. — Darnell Lamont Walker

This letter isn't to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because ... Just Because. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they? — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't trust people without books or questions. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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 — Darnell Lamont Walker

Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though. — Darnell Lamont Walker

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If you're not seeing God at the climax, it's not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth. — Darnell Lamont Walker

We've learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Some of us are so comfortable with bullshit that we remain in the
same fucked up relationship for years (The names and faces may
change, but the issues remain the same). — Darnell Lamont Walker

I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

They became better women for leaving. — Darnell Lamont Walker

You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape. — Darnell Lamont Walker

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental. — Darnell Lamont Walker

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Tell me what you're looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast. — Darnell Lamont Walker

How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another. — Darnell Lamont Walker

She's lazy, so i'm not sure when she had time to build that wall she has surrounding her. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Black people are either threats or entertainment. — Darnell Lamont Walker

In her head is war
All the time just war
I put her to bed
I bring peace to the world — Darnell Lamont Walker

As long as I don't give you a reason to love me, you shouldn't. — Darnell Lamont Walker

With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.
They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.
They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Drugs are the gateway drug — Darnell Lamont Walker

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?
Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we'd fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I'm wishing back for you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone. — Darnell Lamont Walker

They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion's only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together. — Darnell Lamont Walker

They made you speak about god in the third person — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't want to be tolerated. Either accept me or don't. Don't "tolerate" me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I say fuck marriage, but we can do it for these westerners and explain it to the gods later. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

I will help build your museum
When you run out of space to hang your work
You can hang your work in mine — Darnell Lamont Walker

Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions. — Darnell Lamont Walker

She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did. — Darnell Lamont Walker

To Those Who Follow Me Around Whispering, "You're Just A Man" When I Feel Like God — Darnell Lamont Walker

I have friends who know everything there is to know about life except how to enjoy it — Darnell Lamont Walker

Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don't always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren't words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it. — Darnell Lamont Walker