Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes (2024 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.”

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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

8. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

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12. “Drugs are the gateway drug.”

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

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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

17. “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

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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

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

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25. “Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made.”

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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

28. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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34. “You’re not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men who hate women.”

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35. “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

36. “If I told you just how much I need you, would you stay?”

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37. “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

38. “My heart isn’t big enough to care for the oppressors.”

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

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40. “Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

41. “Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.”

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

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43. “You don’t get to turn someone’s sanctuary into an unsafe space.”

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44. “Imagine getting to the end of your life and realizing you never really started.”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “I’ve kept my life beautifully interesting by holding tight to the possibility that every dream I’ve ever had will come true.”

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48. “We’ve learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle.”

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

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50. “If you haven’t been journaling through this, now is a good time to start. One day, you and people who love and loved you and people who will never know you may want to look back to understand how you survived.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker