Quotes by Darnell Lamont Walker

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

“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,...”

“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.”

“The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.”

“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”

“I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.”

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

“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.”

“Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.”

“In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world”

“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.”

“Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.”

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

“Sanity and sense becomes a prison.”

“When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.”

“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 a...”

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

“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.”