Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

52. “Who told you adulthood couldn’t feel like childhood? Long days of forgetting what day it is. Wanting to be wherever your wings or the wind dropped you. Filled with secrets and chances and whimsy.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

54. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

65. “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

66. “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

67. “The oppressor is never as free as they think they are.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

68. “Just like “All American” means “White,” “All Lives” means “White.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

69. “I don’t trust people without books or questions.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

71. “Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

72. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

73. “Two things that will never work together: compassion and judgment. You gonna have to let one of them go.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

74. “One day you will be the only one in the room not living.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

75. “Know when they’re genuine. Know when you’re just a fetish.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

76. “They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant ‘American.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

77. “You can’t forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

78. “If you are not brave, say you are, then be it.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

79. “Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

80. “Watching the sun set is like watching a beautiful kid die for a good cause.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

81. “When it’s quiet, I can hear the voices of those who took comfort under my skin when I could not.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

82. “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

83. “I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y’all.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

84. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

86. “You can’t fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

87. “Didn’t know where I was going. Didn’t care where I ended up. I knew I’d be okay though.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

88. “How necessary Sundays have become. I reach for them like sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth or my mattress.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

89. “America’s put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

90. “The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

91. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

92. “You’ve got everything but audacity. Talent and passion built the car. Audacity is gonna getcha far.” – me, at some point.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

93. “I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

94. “4am and me. the only two beasts that will look at you sincerely.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

95. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

96. “Black bodies have become ornamental, haven’t they?”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

97. “On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

98. “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

99. “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.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker