Top 100 Darnell Quotes
#1. I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell
Nicholas Sparks
#2. Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking;
Arthur Machen
#3. He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.
James Dashner
#4. Take that off your head! came a whiny voice, right before a teenage boy appeared at the door with a pair of underwear pulled over his brown hair like a hat. Darnell.
James Dashner
#5. With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#6. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#8. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#9. The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#10. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#11. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#12. The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#14. Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#15. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#17. When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#18. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#19. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#20. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#21. She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#22. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#23. We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
Darnell Lamont Walker
#25. Follow your passion? Sure ... but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.
Bobby Darnell
#26. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#27. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#28. I don't believe that there's a silver bullet, that if you just do this one thing, you solve the problems of the world.
Darnell M. Hunt
#30. 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
Darnell Lamont Walker
#31. Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.
Bobby Darnell
#32. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
Darnell Lamont Walker
#33. We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#34. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#35. Some of you are eternal doormen. holding the door open for those who are headed out into greatness. I thank you for that.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#36. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#37. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.
Bobby Darnell
#38. You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#39. Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#41. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#42. 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
#43. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#46. Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#48. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#49. We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#51. What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#52. 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
#53. 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
Darnell Lamont Walker
#58. If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#59. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
Miriam Darnell
#62. You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#63. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#64. How could two people seem so perfect together, be so happy together, an yet be so wrong in so many others' eyes?
Melissa Darnell
#66. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#70. I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#71. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#73. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#74. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#76. Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#77. 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
#78. Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#80. 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?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#82. I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#83. Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#84. We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#85. I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#86. Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#88. Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.
Bobby Darnell
#89. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#90. Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#91. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#92. 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.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#93. I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
Eric Darnell
#94. 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).
Darnell Lamont Walker
#95. Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#96. Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#97. Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#99. America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#100. 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?
Darnell Lamont Walker
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