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Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes | Quotes said by Darnell Lamont Walker

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #1

    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 Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

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

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #4

    And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #5

    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.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #6

    Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #7

    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 Quote #8

    Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #9

    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 Quote #10

    But you're sleep, and you're a few miles away, and I have no means to get to you right now, so I’m writing.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #11

    Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #12

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

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #13

    Drugs are the gateway drug

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #14

    Even the Us's are Them's.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #15

    Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #16

    Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #19

    Home is where you were conditioned.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #20

    i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

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

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #25

    I love you because
    Five floor walk up
    1 to the 2 to the E
    Three avenues

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #26

    i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #27

    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.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #28

    I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #29

    I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

  • Darnell Lamont Walker Quote #30

    I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

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