Top 100 Darnell Quotes

#1. I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell

Nicholas Sparks

Darnell Quotes #801128
#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

Darnell Quotes #850694
#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

Darnell Quotes #1280282
#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

Darnell Quotes #1720676
#5. With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #3626
#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

Darnell Quotes #5113
#7. Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #30615
#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

Darnell Quotes #47346
#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

Darnell Quotes #50816
#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

Darnell Quotes #58212
#11. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #68059
#12. The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #68516
#13. Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #78522
#14. Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #84790
#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

Darnell Quotes #104065
#16. Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #108693
#17. When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #108913
#18. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #119496
#19. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #122699
#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

Darnell Quotes #154524
#21. She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #164516
#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

Darnell Quotes #164522
#23. We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #167435
#24. I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #190052
#25. Follow your passion? Sure ... but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

Bobby Darnell

Darnell Quotes #191508
#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

Darnell Quotes #206790
#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

Darnell Quotes #211570
#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

Darnell Quotes #234754
#29. In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #236143
#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

Darnell Quotes #247840
#31. Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.

Bobby Darnell

Darnell Quotes #247897
#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

Darnell Quotes #252053
#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

Darnell Quotes #255555
#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

Darnell Quotes #262627
#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

Darnell Quotes #273921
#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

Darnell Quotes #276670
#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

Darnell Quotes #279726
#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

Darnell Quotes #285256
#39. Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #298470
#40. But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #301658
#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

Darnell Quotes #318350
#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

Darnell Quotes #320228
#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

Darnell Quotes #327393
#44. Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #350290
#45. Some women remind you of a good book. Others remind you of a bad movie.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #351367
#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

Darnell Quotes #352521
#47. Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #354740
#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

Darnell Quotes #364081
#49. We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #366471
#50. Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #370713
#51. What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #379818
#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

Darnell Quotes #387678
#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

Darnell Quotes #409448
#54. They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #434048
#55. They made you speak about god in the third person

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #435159
#56. Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #467268
#57. I don't trust people without books or questions.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #468222
#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

Darnell Quotes #472548
#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

Darnell Quotes #479388
#60. Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #497712
#61. Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Miriam Darnell

Darnell Quotes #506471
#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

Darnell Quotes #506955
#63. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #514662
#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

Darnell Quotes #516742
#65. Definitions only belong to those who need them.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #517229
#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

Darnell Quotes #522742
#67. They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #552937
#68. Can a woman raise a man alone? yes, but she shouldn't have to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #559124
#69. Life is cheap, make sure you buy enough

Gerald W. Darnell

Darnell Quotes #561910
#70. I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #576133
#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

Darnell Quotes #576207
#72. They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #581080
#73. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #583731
#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

Darnell Quotes #587570
#75. As long as I don't give you a reason to love me, you shouldn't.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #593291
#76. Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #603913
#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

Darnell Quotes #622131
#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

Darnell Quotes #625693
#79. The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #629326
#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

Darnell Quotes #633141
#81. Even the Us's are Them's.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #637227
#82. I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #642097
#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

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#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

Darnell Quotes #659278
#85. I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #660176
#86. Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #674478
#87. Black people are either threats or entertainment.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #698516
#88. Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.

Bobby Darnell

Darnell Quotes #699015
#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

Darnell Quotes #699318
#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

Darnell Quotes #702698
#91. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Bobby Darnell

Darnell Quotes #708903
#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

Darnell Quotes #711751
#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

Darnell Quotes #733010
#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

Darnell Quotes #738785
#95. Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #750700
#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

Darnell Quotes #752152
#97. Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #758375
#98. The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #774495
#99. America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Quotes #789645
#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

Darnell Quotes #807754

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