Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes - Page 3

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

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.

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.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

Home is where you were conditioned.

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

Even the Us's are Them's.

There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

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

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

My ideas fuck like rabbits.

I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

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.

sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.

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.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.

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

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.

Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.

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.

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

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

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.

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.

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

Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

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

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

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

If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.