Darnell Lamont Walker

“sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.”

“can a woman raise a man alone? yes, but she shouldn't have to.”

“i hope god isn't always watching - there are a few things i want to surprise him with - you being one of them.”

“If you’re not seeing God at the climax, it’s not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.”

“We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.”

“I used to bookmark relationships, hoping to pick up where I left off when I returned.”

“I say fuck marriage, but we can do it for these westerners and explain it to the gods later.”

“We never broke up. We simply redefined “forever.”

“As long as I don’t give you a reason to love me, you shouldn’t.”

“I’m crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I’m pleased just writing you.”

“I don’t need to tell her I love her, but I do it anyway.”

“They became better women for leaving.”

“Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.”

“Sometimes you just want someone to sit on the couch and watch a movie with.”

“When I told the therapist that the “me” that I am now is the best me I can be, I was truthful. I’ve always given you my best, so when you say it's not enough, it chips away at the “best me.”

“If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I’d be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling.”

“I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city—you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you.”

“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.”

“This letter isn’t to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because…Just Because.”

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.”

“Some of us are so comfortable with bullshit that we remain in thesame fucked up relationship for years (The names and faces maychange, but the issues remain the same).”

“To Those Who Follow Me Around Whispering, “You’re Just A Man” When I Feel Like God”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.”

“Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.”

“New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we’re watching.”

“One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.”

“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.”

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

“Not everything set on fire will rise.”

“The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.”

“Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.”

“We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.”

“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”

“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.”

“I’m learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.”

“If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.”

“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.”

“Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we’d fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I’m wishing back for you.”

“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.”

“Tell me what you’re looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast.”

“With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.”

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

“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.”

“I don't want to be tolerated. Either accept me or don't. Don't "tolerate" me.”

“What happens if one day we’re standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you’re washing and I’m drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?”

“If I told you just how much I need you, would you stay?”