Darnell Lamont Walker

“adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.”

“scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches.”

“We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.”

“i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.”

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

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

“My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.”

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

“My relationships failed because i never showed up to the wars i didn't feel like fighting.”

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

“How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another.”

“i don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone.”

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

“Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.”

“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.”

“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.”

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

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

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

“My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.”

“Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.”

“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.”

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.”

“Some of you are eternal doormen. holding the door open for those who are headed out into greatness. I thank you for that.”

“Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made.”

“Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.”

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

“The only thing they've ever wanted, every relationship, was someone i wasn't.”

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

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

“What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.”

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

“Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.”

“The oppressor is never as free as they think they are”

“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.”

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

“Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.”

“You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.”

“Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster.”

“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.”

“The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.”

“It's nice to wake up in the morning alone and not have to tell someone you love them when you don't love them anymore.”

“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.”

“Some women remind you of a good book. Others remind you of a bad movie.”

“We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.”

“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.”

“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”

“let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes.”

“she's lazy, so i'm not sure when she had time to build that wall she has surrounding her.”

“there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.”