Top 100 Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “It was Rome. The whole city a museum.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

54. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

60. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

67. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

70. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

83. “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

84. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

95. “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

96. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

98. “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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker