A biography for Darnell Lamont Walkerhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.”
“An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.”
“adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.”
“Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.”
“The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.”
“None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.”
“Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.”
“Sanity and sense becomes a prison.”
“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.”
“If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.”
“The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.”
“I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.”
“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.”
“You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.”
“Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.”
“The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.”
“I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine”
“Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?”
“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”
“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.”