Darnell Lamont Walker quotes:

Even the Us's are Them's.

The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.

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

The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

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.

Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.

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

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

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.

New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we're watching.

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

They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

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

I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

And 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.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.