Darnell Lamont Walker Quotes

“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.”

Life Religion Relationships Sin Virtue Living Christians How To Live

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Ever think about all the things that began with a smile? Love, life, happiness, evolution, days. Wow.”

Love Happiness Smile Face Smiling

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.”

Struggle Smile Struggles

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“It’s Friday night and the rain is coming and I’ll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you’d hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain.”

Shoes Smiles

Book:Book of She

Source: Book of She

“It's dangerous to make homes out of people. But damn, don't you want someone to describe you as "home?”

Love Home Romance Comfort In Love Soul Mate

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Life Home Living Running Away

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Home is where you were conditioned.”

Home Conditioning

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.”

Love Vulnerable Beer Vulnerability Touching Infatuation Burger

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Change is scary until you dance with it.”

Change Progress Acceptance Changing Acceptance Of Others

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.”

Men Love Relationship Lovers Dating Couples

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Everyone - absolutely everyone - deserves humanity, empathy, compassion. It doesn't have to be you who gives it to them.”

Love Humanity Compassion Empathy Caring

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Two things that will never work together: compassion and judgment. You gonna have to let one of them go.”

Compassion Judgment Judgement

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Like old furniture and cars and things, we should post "As Is" stickers on people. Love me that way. Not how you think I should be or will be.”

People Love Compassion

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“That feeling Those inexplicable happenings to your body... could be stress could be anxiety”

Depression Anxiety Stress Mental Health

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“To those who sometimes have to break their own necks to have a shoulder to cry on...better is coming.”

Love Worry Progress Future Concern

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Sure, everyone wants to be loved. But more than that, everyone wants to be witnessed.”

Love Witness Being Loved Being Seen

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Writing is lonely work, because it demands solitude. But solitude often forgets to bring peace.”

Writing Loneliness Author Writers Poets Write

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Sometimes you feel alone because, like you, others aren't so ready to confess their shortcomings and struggles.”

Struggle Loneliness Alone Being Alone Shortcomings Confessions Confess Unmasking

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“There’s plenty to be said when folk run to the defendant’s side with “leave him alone, he was acquitted” when a woman is the victim, but wouldn’t dare utter those words when a man is.”

Men Women Rape Rape Culture Mysogyny Me Too

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Be alone. That’s when and where you will refresh. Be a stranger someplace for some odd amount of time. Introduce you to you. Try on new thoughts like sneakers. Walk up and back. How’s the toe feel? Recharge and welcome the new year like you’d welcome a happy puppy returning a stick. Tail wagging, tongue out. Then mix in with those who unbecame to become their best selves, too.”

Solitude Alone Moving On New Year Being Alone By Myself New Years Eve Life

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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 motherf*cker you are today.”

Love Relationships Healing Moving On Break Up Breaking Up

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Good or bad, I’ve long forgotten about some of the people I used to be. If they were beautiful, remind me in secret.”

Life Past Beauty History Moving On Remembering

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.”

Life Death Sorrow Moving On

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.”

Death Sorrow Moving On

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Living in the forest, I’ve learned this from trees: just grow.”

Growth Nature Growing Trees Grow

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I love how bold I am when it comes to learning.”

Learning Continued Learning

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You’ll have to choose between kissing and breathing one day. You’ll learn to breathe some other way.”

Life Kissing Breathe Kiss Breathing Breath

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”

Poetry Words Writers Poets Needing

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Life Pain Suffering Friendship Loneliness Living Lonely Alone Sharing Reaching Out

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Children Growing Up Adults

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Sanity and sense becomes a prison.”

Freedom Prison Common Sense Insanity Sanity Sense

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.”

Dignity

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“We must love ourselves and others deeply. Contrary to what we've been taught, stigmatizing our mothers, brothers, and cousins will not protect our houses from ruin.”

Love Health Depression Suicide Mental Health Mental Illness Self Care Stigma Stigmatization

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you?”

Freedom Redemption Redemptive

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Wanna see the damage religion has done to your people? Wait for the worst of their oppressors to die and look for the prayers they offer them.”

America Religion Politics Freedom Oppression Oppressed Oppressor

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Believe the aunties and preachers when they tell you I ran toward every unlocked door like a kid with scissors and clear instructions to put them down”

Running Freedom Preachers

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Beautiful Seeds Plants

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Beautiful Ugly City

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.”

Love Relationships Good Man Couples Bad Woman

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.”

Love Relationships Lovers Couples Breaking Up Real Self

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.”

Love Relationships Lovers Couples I Love You Thinking Of You

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Love Talking Relationship Communication Heartbreak Couples Breaking Up Miscommunication

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.”

Love Relationships Lovers Need Loving Cuddling Needing

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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”

Life Children Kids Death Pregnancy

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Come to think of it, I knew America didn’t give a damn about kids when Mr Rogers was telling kids they’re amazing and special and deserve love and too many of these US folks were screaming back, “HOW DARE YOU TELL KIDS THAT?”

Love Children Kids Childhood Child American Gun Violence Mr Rogers

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“If you give up on your dreams, let that crush you and destroy you, even if just a little, if your children are watching. Otherwise, when you're telling them that they must pursue theirs, they will look at you and say "you didn't and you're doing just fine.”

Children Dreams Teaching Giving Up Persistence Parenthood Don T Give Up Destroy Teaching Children

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Find a whole in the universe in the shape of you and fill it.”

Life Universe Meaning Of Life

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“The universe is wild. Coincidence feels like magic more times than not.”

Universe Magic Timing Coincidence

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

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