Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ 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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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?

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

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

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Hater and hate are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Home is where you were conditioned.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

~ 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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker