Will 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

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have. — Bobby Darnell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-Of course movies today no longer require film. They are recorded and held in digital suspension as ones and zeroes. And so at the moment the last remaining piece of the world is lit and shot for a movie, there will be another Big Bang ... and the multitudes of ones and zeroes will be strewn through the universe as particles that act like waves ... until, shaken by borealic winds or ignited by solar flares or otherwise galvanized by this or that heavenly signal, they compose themselves into brilliant constellations that shine in full color across the night sky of a remote planet ... where a reverent, unrecognizable form of life will look up from its rooftops at the faces of Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, George Brent, Linda Darnell ... to name just a few of the stars. — E.L. Doctorow

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

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

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are — Darnell Lamont Walker

Try evolving as much as you cry. — 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

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

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

Sanity and sense becomes a prison. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'. — Bobby Darnell

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

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

Enjoy while the world is still capable of allowing you to, for soon all dreaming will come to an end. — Melissa Darnell

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

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. — 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

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

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

Not everything set on fire will rise. — 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drugs are the gateway drug — 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

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

Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches. — 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 don't need to tell her I love her, but I do it anyway. — 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

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

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

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

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