Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

Not everything set on fire will rise.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Drugs are the gateway drug

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

If you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Try evolving as much as you cry.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we’d fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I’m wishing back for you.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker