Darnell Quotes & Sayings

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush
having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. — Arthur Machen

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

I'm not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do. — 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

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

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

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

The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. — Bobby Darnell

There is only one real sin: being different. i'll be damned. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Can a woman raise a man alone? yes, but she shouldn't have to. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken. — 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

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you. — Bobby Darnell

I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues — Darnell Lamont Walker

You have to have a view of something," she said. "Otherwise you'll believe yourself to be a god, not knowing there are a million other things out there bigger than you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera. — Darnell M. Hunt

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell — Nicholas Sparks

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films. — Eric Darnell

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

How could two people seem so perfect together, be so happy together, an yet be so wrong in so many others' eyes? — Melissa Darnell

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

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

Come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these lives we built — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Why does this feel so right?" I murmured past the tightness in my throat.
"Why do you keep fighting this feeling?"
"Because I'm not supposed to want this."
His smile returned, slowly curving his lips up. "But you do anyway. — Melissa Darnell

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant. — 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

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I wasn't born mediocre, i won't achieve mediocrity, and i will not let anyone put it on me. i will kill you. — 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

Black people are either threats or entertainment. — 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

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

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. — Bobby Darnell

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

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway.
"Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."
Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I'd be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling. — 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

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

And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

Take that off your head! came a whiny voice, right before a teenage boy appeared at the door with a pair of underwear pulled over his brown hair like a hat. Darnell. — James Dashner

I could swear I'd just swallowed the sun. — Melissa Darnell

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. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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 — Darnell Lamont Walker

Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't believe that there's a silver bullet, that if you just do this one thing, you solve the problems of the world. — Darnell M. Hunt

I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry. — 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

I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I'm pleased just writing you. — 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

Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Try evolving as much as you cry. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Sanity and sense becomes a prison. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you? — 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

I don't have any down days. If anybody who knows me comes into our locker room, they know I'm happy; they know I'm cheerful. — Darnell Dockett

Success has less to teach us than does the journey to achieve it — Bobby Darnell

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are — 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

Active participation on LinkedIn is the best way to say, 'Look at me!' without saying 'Look at me! — Bobby Darnell

But you're sleep, and you're a few miles away, and I have no means to get to you right now, so I'm writing. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'. — Bobby Darnell

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl's laugh grabbed my attention. — Melissa Darnell

Follow your passion? Sure ... but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends. — Bobby Darnell

If i'd die for you, i'm certainly living for you as i type this. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't need to tell her I love her, but I do it anyway. — 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

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

The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet. — 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