Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

2. “I’m silent when there is a war inside me. There’s a need to keep the people outside intact.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

3. “A seat at the table is desired. But I’ll scream from the street if I need to.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

4. “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

5. “Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

6. “Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

7. “Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

8. “Trees still grow after letting dead things go.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

9. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

10. “It’s Friday night and the rain is coming and I’ll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you’d hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

11. “Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

12. “When you’re marginalized, there are no “them people,” if we’re all on the outskirts of the same margin.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

13. “The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

14. “They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

15. “Drugs are the gateway drug.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

16. “Sometimes you feel alone because, like you, others aren’t so ready to confess their shortcomings and struggles.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

17. “I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I’m living for that.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

18. “I have no clue if it’s true and I don’t much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

19. “Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

20. “They will write you and call you and find you over and over again to tell you that you are nothing to them because you’re everything to them.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

21. “You were only there to be a healer. A fixer. To prepare them for the next love. Not yours.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

22. “We were murdered so often, I started believing Black bodies made better fertilizer.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

23. “The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company’s mission.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

24. “Communities that can’t read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

25. “If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

26. “You raise boys to reject everything feminine then get mad when they become men who hate women.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

27. “I have yet to go through a struggle I didn’t smile at later.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

28. “It will always sound like bragging to those who are slacking.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

29. “When i’m out and it’s autumn, my thank you’s to the universe seem infinite.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

30. “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

31. “Good morning. Eat something AMAZING. You’ll need the strength while pulling your authentic voice from the pile of other folks’ expectations of you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

32. “Good or bad, I’ve long forgotten about some of the people I used to be. If they were beautiful, remind me in secret.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

33. “When you don’t make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

34. “If you’re calling for peace, I am not home.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

35. “If you weren’t built for this life, you’d be dead by now. i think the problem is people don’t share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we’re never really alone in anything.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

36. “The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

37. “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

38. “Black people are either threats or entertainment.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

39. “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

40. “Ever think about all the things that began with a smile? Love, life, happiness, evolution, days. Wow.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

41. “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

42. “The sun leaves often and I watch like a lover who’s not yet vulnerable enough to ask it to stay a little longer.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

43. “If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

44. “But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

45. “It was Rome. The whole city a museum.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

46. “Smile, ’cause life is gonna be what it is. There are brighter days ahead.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

47. “I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn’t be broken.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

48. “It’s dangerous to make homes out of people. But damn, don’t you want someone to describe you as “home?”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

49. “Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren’t taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

50. “In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker