Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
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#3. I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.
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#4. We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.
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#5. Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
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#6. I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
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#8. 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?
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#10. Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.
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#15. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
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#17. 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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#18. I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
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#21. 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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#23. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
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#24. You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.
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#26. Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.
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#28. My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god
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#29. 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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#30. On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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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#37. 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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#38. I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.
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#39. 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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#41. 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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#42. America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
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#44. Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
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#45. 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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#46. Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.
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#50. 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.
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#51. When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
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#52. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
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#53. What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
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#55. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.
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#56. It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.
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#58. We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
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#59. 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.
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#60. She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.
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#61. 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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#62. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
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#63. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.
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#64. We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.
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#66. When I told the therapist that the "me" that I am now is the best me I can be, I was truthful. I've always given you my best, so when you say it's not enough, it chips away at the "best me.
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#67. Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.
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#69. The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
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#70. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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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#73. 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.
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#75. 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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#76. Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
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#77. If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.
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#82. 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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#83. I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.
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#84. What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
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#86. We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.
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#87. 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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#89. With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#96. Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. Some of you are eternal doormen. holding the door open for those who are headed out into greatness. I thank you for that.
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#100. 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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