Quotes from Darnell Lamont Walker

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

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.

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

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

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

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.

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

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

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues

We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren't sure if we were in love anymore.