Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world

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

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

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

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

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.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

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'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.

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

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

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.

After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m gonna tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?

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.

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

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

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.

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.

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.

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

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

You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.

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

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

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

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.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

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

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.

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

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

Not everything set on fire will rise.

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

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

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.

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.

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

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

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

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

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.