Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes - Page 2

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.
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African-Amendment.
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My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.
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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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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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It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.
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But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.
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I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.
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A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.
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You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.
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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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America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.
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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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Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.
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They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
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Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.
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America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
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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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I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.
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the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.
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Home is where you were conditioned.
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We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
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Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.
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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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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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I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine
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1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.
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They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion’s only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together.
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It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness
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Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.
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She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.
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Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
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I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
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Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.
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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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Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.
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Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
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i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
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The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.
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Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.
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Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
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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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The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.
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Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.
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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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Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
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Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
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If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.
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What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
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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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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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The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.
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With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
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She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.
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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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You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.
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Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.
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The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.
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adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.
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I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.
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