Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

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

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

They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion’s only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together.

Drugs are the gateway drug

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

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

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

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.

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

In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

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

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

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