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01Undated

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

Darnell Lamont Walker / quote

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02Undated

When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

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05Undated

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

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06Undated

The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it.

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07Undated

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

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08Undated

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

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09Undated

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

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10Undated

I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.

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11Undated

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

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12Undated

I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional. When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.

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13Undated

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.

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14Undated

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

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15Undated

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.

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16Undated

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

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17Undated

i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.

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18Undated

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

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19Undated

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

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20Undated

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

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21Undated

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

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22Undated

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

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23Undated

Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.

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24Undated

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 / quote

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