Darnell Lamont Walker

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

“I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic.”

“It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.”

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

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

“Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.”

“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.”

“She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.”

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

“What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.”

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

“They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets”

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

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

“She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].”