DLDarnell Lamont Walker

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Darnell Lamont Walker

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But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

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02Undated

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

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If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

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06Undated

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

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07Undated

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

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08Undated

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.

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09Undated

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

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What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier.

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11Undated

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.

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When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

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I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.

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The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.

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15Undated

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

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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.

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My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

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18Undated

They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

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19Undated

Even the Us's are Them's.

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20Undated

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

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21Undated

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

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22Undated

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

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23Undated

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

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24Undated

Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.

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