01UndatedWhy not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
04UndatedYou ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
05UndatedThey sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
06UndatedTell me what you’re looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
07UndatedSometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
08UndatedAnyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
09UndatedThe masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's missionDarnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
10UndatedGonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
12UndatedDeath pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
13UndatedWaking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
14UndatedI speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
16UndatedThe thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
17Undatednone of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
19Undatedi never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
20UndatedWe have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
21Undatedsex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
22Undatedthere are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
23UndatedIf you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
24UndatedAnd you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard.Darnell Lamont Walker / quote ↗
