Darnell Self Quotes

#1. 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

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

Bobby Darnell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. 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

#8. Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.

Bobby Darnell

#9. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Darnell Lamont Walker

#10. We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#31. Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#34. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#35. 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

#36. She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#37. 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

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

Darnell Lamont Walker