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The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killedDarnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.Darnell Lamont Walker
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In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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-witted But not homophobic.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.Darnell Lamont Walker
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In her head is war All the time just war I put her to bed I bring peace to the worldDarnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Sanity and sense becomes a prison.Darnell Lamont Walker
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When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.Darnell Lamont Walker
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They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsetsDarnell Lamont Walker
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You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I don't trust people without books or questions.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.Darnell Lamont Walker
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When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.Darnell Lamont Walker
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On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.Darnell Lamont Walker
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If you're calling for peace, I am not home.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.Darnell Lamont Walker
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None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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One day you will be the only one in the room not living.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional. When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.Darnell Lamont Walker
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You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.Darnell Lamont Walker
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There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.Darnell Lamont Walker
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With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.Darnell Lamont Walker
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What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.Darnell Lamont Walker
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If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.Darnell Lamont Walker
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After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m gonna tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?Darnell Lamont Walker
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Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?Darnell Lamont Walker
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Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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.Darnell Lamont Walker
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She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.Darnell Lamont Walker
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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-nessDarnell Lamont Walker
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They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion’s only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I will help build your museum When you run out of space to hang your work You can hang your work in mineDarnell Lamont Walker
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1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I’m not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.Darnell Lamont Walker
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We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].Darnell Lamont Walker
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Home is where you were conditioned.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.Darnell Lamont Walker
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America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.Darnell Lamont Walker
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They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.Darnell Lamont Walker
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The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.Darnell Lamont Walker
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America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.Darnell Lamont Walker
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You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.Darnell Lamont Walker
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A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.Darnell Lamont Walker
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But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.Darnell Lamont Walker
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It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.Darnell Lamont Walker
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If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.Darnell Lamont Walker
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I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.Darnell Lamont Walker