Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

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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Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.
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the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
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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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there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.
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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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Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we’d fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I’m wishing back for you.
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I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues
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Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.
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Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.
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We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.
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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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Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.
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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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Try evolving as much as you cry.
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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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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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Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.
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And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard.
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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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there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.
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sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.
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We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.
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i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
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Drugs are the gateway drug
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none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.
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The oppressor is never as free as they think they are
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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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I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
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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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Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.
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Not everything set on fire will rise.
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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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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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Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.
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Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
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Tell me what you’re looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast.
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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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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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An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.
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My ideas fuck like rabbits.
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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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Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.
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And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.
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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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The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.
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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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Even the Us's are Them's.
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They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.
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White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.
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My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
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You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.
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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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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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Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.
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When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
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It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.
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Black people are either threats or entertainment.
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What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier.
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Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?
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