“My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god” — Darnell Lamont Walker Attraction Copy Share Image
“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Intellectual Copy Share Image
“none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Art Copy Share Image
“Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Critical-thought Copy Share Image
“It’s AUDACITY and TENACITY that will get you there. TALENT is least important.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Audacity Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Relationships Copy Share Image
“I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Church Copy Share Image
“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… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“I've sat listening at the feet of enough Black women to know they all deserve to tell their own stories. But here… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their… — Darnell Lamont Walker Activist Copy Share Image
“i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Dignity Copy Share Image
“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… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“i wasn't born mediocre, i won't achieve mediocrity, and i will not let anyone put it on me. i will kill you.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Death Copy Share Image
“The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.” — Darnell Lamont Walker God Copy Share Image
“You were only there to be a healer. A fixer. To prepare them for the next love. Not yours.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Breaking up Copy Share Image
“The only thing they've ever wanted, every relationship, was someone i wasn't.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Relationship Copy Share Image
“there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our… — Darnell Lamont Walker Airplanes Copy Share Image
“One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard… — Darnell Lamont Walker Fall in love Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake… — Darnell Lamont Walker Art Copy Share Image
“If you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Beauty Copy Share Image
“We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“You're not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men who hate women.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Boyhood Copy Share Image
“And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a… — Darnell Lamont Walker Coffee shop Copy Share Image
“Audacity and collaboration aren’t just luxuries—they’re necessities. No matter who you are, daring to dream boldly and building alongside others will always… — Darnell Lamont Walker Audacity Copy Share Image
“let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging… — Darnell Lamont Walker God Copy Share Image
“We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Abortion Copy Share Image
“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Funeral Copy Share Image
“I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and… — Darnell Lamont Walker America Copy Share Image
“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is… — Darnell Lamont Walker Death Copy Share Image
“Some of us are so comfortable with bullshit that we remain in the same fucked up relationship for years (The names and… — Darnell Lamont Walker Relationship Copy Share Image
“And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer,… — Darnell Lamont Walker Autumn Copy Share Image
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Scar Copy Share Image
“When I told the therapist that the “me” that I am now is the best me I can be, I was truthful.… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Death Copy Share Image
