Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes & Sayings

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

#2. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

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

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#4. Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

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

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#6. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.

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#7. If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I'd be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling.

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#8. We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

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

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#10. In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

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#11. 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.

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#12. There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

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

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#14. But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

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#18. Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

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#19. Some women remind you of a good book. Others remind you of a bad movie.

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

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#21. I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you.

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

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

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#24. 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

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#25. Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.

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#26. I don't trust people without books or questions.

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#27. I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.

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

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. 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.

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

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

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#34. As long as I don't give you a reason to love me, you shouldn't.

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

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#36. Even the Us's are Them's.

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#37. I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

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#38. Black people are either threats or entertainment.

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#39. You have to have a view of something," she said. "Otherwise you'll believe yourself to be a god, not knowing there are a million other things out there bigger than you.

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#40. Some of us are so comfortable with bullshit that we remain in the
same fucked up relationship for years (The names and faces may
change, but the issues remain the same).

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#41. Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made.

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

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#43. The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

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

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#45. What happens if one day we're standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you're washing and I'm drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?

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#46. Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

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#47. 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.

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

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#49. 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.

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

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#51. What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you?

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#52. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

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#53. Know when they're genuine. Know when you're just a fetish.

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#54. 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.

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#55. I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues

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#56. Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches.

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#57. Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.

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#58. I used to bookmark relationships, hoping to pick up where I left off when I returned.

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#59. 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.

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

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#61. If i'd die for you, i'm certainly living for you as i type this.

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#62. Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

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#63. The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

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#64. I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.

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#65. I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

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

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

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

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

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#70. Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

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#71. If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

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

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#73. Let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes.

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

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

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#76. I have friends who know everything there is to know about life except how to enjoy it

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

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#78. Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down.

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

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#80. How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another.

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#81. She's lazy, so i'm not sure when she had time to build that wall she has surrounding her.

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#82. Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.

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#83. This letter isn't to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because ... Just Because.

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#84. Try evolving as much as you cry.

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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.

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#87. Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.

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#91. It's Friday night and the rain is coming and I'll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you'd hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain.

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

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#93. 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.

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