Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

African-Amendment.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

~ 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

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Even the Us's are Them's.

~ 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

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

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

~ 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

My ideas fuck like rabbits.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

They sit there shouting Don't do it. Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.

~ 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

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ 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