Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

53. “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

54. “She said before i could touch her walls I’d have to touch her heart. so i did.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

55. “America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

56. “They’ve been practicing racism so long, it’s perfect.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

57. “Don’t let them mishandle your vulnerability twice.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

58. “There are broken people who can be healed with the apology you refuse to give them. The apology you know they deserve, but scared to give because your ego is on the line.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

59. “We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

60. “White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

61. “I’ve sat listening at the feet of enough Black women to know they all deserve to tell their own stories. But here we are, mourning.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

62. “You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

63. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

70. “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

71. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

73. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

78. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

89. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

91. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

94. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

97. “4am and me. the only two beasts that will look at you sincerely.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

98. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker