Best 178 quotes of Darnell Lamont Walker on MyQuotes

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

4am and me. the only two beasts that will look at you sincerely.

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

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

African-Amendment.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

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

Any rocks I throw, I stand around and make sure they land

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.

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.

A seat at the table is desired. But I'll scream from the street if I need to.

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

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

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

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.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

But you're sleep, and you're a few miles away, and I have no means to get to you right now, so I’m writing.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these lives we built

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

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

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.

Definitions only belong to those who need them.

Don’t let them mishandle your vulnerability twice.

Drugs are the gateway drug

Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.

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

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.

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

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.

Home is where you were conditioned.

How necessary Sundays have become. I reach for them like sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth or my mattress.

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

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

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.

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.

i don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone.

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-witted But not homophobic.

I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

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

If you are not brave, say you are, then be it.