A biography for Darnell Lamont Walkerhasn’t been written yet.
“After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m gonna tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?”
“Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.”
“Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.”
“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.”
“What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed”
“Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.”
“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”
“I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.”
“I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.”
“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.”
“Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.”
“The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.”
“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.”
“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.”
“On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.”
“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.”
“Home is where you were conditioned.”
“There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.”
“i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.”
“In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.”