Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

~ 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

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't trust people without books or questions.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

~ 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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker