Darnell Lamont Walker Books & Quotes

“Let them be your friend because their love is liberating. Because they love your happiness as much as their own. Because their love is strong, but so light to hold. Love liberates.”

Love Happiness Friendship Friends Friend

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“YOU deserve friends that are so good, so amazing, so incredible that if they ever betrayed you, it would make you question EVERYTHING.”

Friendship Friends Betrayal Deception Friend

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Too many people are unsafe spaces.”

Helping Healing Friends Enemies Safe Space Holding Space

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Love Relationships Relationship Creation Friends In Love Working Couples Heartbreak

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Your heart breaks a little when you have children. Maybe because of chunk of it goes to that kid. Maybe because you become fearful that the world won’t love them as much as you. I suppose children come with the things that’ll fill in the cracks over time, but not completely.”

Love Children Kids Heartbreak Parents Parenthood

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“In an interview I can’t seem to find, they asked Diddy, “when did you know you were successful?” He responded, “the first time I flew without luggage.” I always believed this would be incredible if we did this in our -ships (friendships, partnerships, intimate relationships, etc.). Imagine showing up with none of that STUFF weighing us down. We’d be free to move about the land and discover things new that’d cover us.”

Love Relationships Relationship Heartbreak Intimacy Baggage

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Writing Truth Honesty Words Author Writer Confession

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Children’s imaginations are too often killed by embarrassed parents.”

Children Kids Death Imagination Parenting Parents Dreaming Embarassment

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Survival without preparation is just delayed chaos.”

Death Grief Dying Survival Preparation Surviving Getting Through

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“It’s okay to complain It doesn’t weaken you It softens you first around the mouth then the eyes That first breath is a thank you without airs You’ll swallow and it’ll go into your belly And your hands will clasp your throat but it’ll be too late because once it hits the blood your heart will have it and it’s okay there Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins There you are Scream Roll in the aisles Cry Another breath Breeeeeeeeeeeeeathe And complain again you human Your wildness will die before you and it does not need permission to leave or forgiveness for leaving This is how you let us know you don’t want to be here any more than we want you here”

Death Dying Complaining Wholeness Deathbed

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins”

Death Dying Ruins The End

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.”

War Death Fighting Dying Revolution Revolutionary

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.”

Death Dying Death Of A Loved One Death And Love Death Of A Child

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.”

Life Jobs Death Dying Living Live Eulogy Hardwork Working Hard Resume

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“One day you will be the only one in the room not living.”

Life Dying Living Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Soul Death Dying

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“One of my favorite things about teaching is being there to witness someone become what they JUST told you they weren’t.”

Education Teach Teacher Teaching Taught

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Smile, ‘cause life is gonna be what it is. There are brighter days ahead.”

Happiness Sadness Sad Smile Moving On Heartache Smiling Recovering

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Love is someone who will hold you through the mourning.”

Love Life Death Sadness Mourning Lover Loving Holding

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“When you ask someone to be who they aren’t, who they told you they weren’t, even if just for one second, no matter how small it seems to you, and they do, pieces of the person you loved - at least in your presence - disappear. And you are to blame. The smile is often the first thing to go. Than their patience with you. Then their kindness.”

People Patience Smile Tolerance Be Yourself Changing Changing People

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Let yourself be alone. Let others be alone when thev need. The people in the world are too much sometimes.”

People Solitude Alone The World Quiet Time

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Bible

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You raise boys to reject everything feminine then get mad when they become men who hate women.”

Boys Feminism Hatred Misogyny Raising Children Teaching Boys

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You're not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men who hate women.”

Men Boys Feminism Feminist Manhood Femininity Raising Children Violence Against Women Boyhood L

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You won't get credit for everything you do. Be find with that. You did it because it needed to be done.”

Work Credit Dues Payment Homage Duties Paying Getting Credit

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.”

War Silence Internal Conflict

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You can do it, too. You're just afraid of what others are gonna say about you. Build your audacity.”

Fear Shame Audacity

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You hate the person for making you cry, but you're grateful for where the tears took you.”

Progress Tears Moving On Heartache Crying

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.”

Love Art Letters Poems Artists Songs Paintings

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“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.”

Letters Therapy

Book:Creep

Source: Creep

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

Letters

Book:Creep

Source: Creep

“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.”

Letters

Book:Creep

Source: Creep

“When i’m out and it’s autumn, my thank you’s to the universe seem infinite.”

Joy Fall Autumn Rejoice

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Here’s to doing more than surviving. Here’s to loving, dreaming, achieving, wishing, playing, saying no when you needed to, saying yes when you wanted to, and living. Here’s to you, you incredible human you.”

Love Achievement Living Dreaming Wishing Toast Cheers

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“mental health is the foundation of how we live and how we leave this world. Healing happens when we give ourselves permission to be human.”

Life Death Grief Living Mental Health Being Human

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You never get the moment folks chose to be inhumane.”

Humanity Kindness Inhumane

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You never forget the moment folks chose to be inhumane.”

Humanity Kindness Society Inhumanity Evil People

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Loving myself radically and being kind to myself radically means making an island of myself to which only a few have the strength to swim.”

Love Kind Kindness Self Love Radical Self Care Self Awareness

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Kind words fill empty spaces, too.”

Compassion Kindness Words

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“one day, life is going to be sweet simply because it’s sweet. not because a struggle has ended.”

Life Struggle Sweet Living Overcoming Hardship

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Our entire lives are made up of moments and the tiniest pieces of right now.”

Life Moments Happiness Right Now Living Living In The Moment

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“Imagine getting to the end of your life and realizing you never really started.”

Life Death Regret Living Deathbed

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I will tell you the purpose of life, but you must take this information and you must use it. But let a breeze pass between your learning and your reaction. Let a quiet moment slow your heart before excitement enters. I’m going to tell you and I want you to stay in that moment. Try to catch it. Your entire life is made up of memories and the smallest piece of RIGHT NOW. Here it is: the purpose of life is to find an empty space and use it. Now feel the breeze. Breathe.”

Life Moments Memories Space Living Breathing Meaning Of Life Purpose Of Life Stillness Breeze

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“If I'm going to be in this world, I'm going to fight for my happiness until I leave it.”

Love Life Happiness Existence Living

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I do what makes me happy because I never want to be one of those people with a collection of “I almost” stories. Imagine me saying “I almost saw the sun set on the Adriatic.” It was beautiful, y’all.”

Life Stories Happiness Travel Living Happy Life Traveling Almost Adriatic

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“In a good laugh - the ones that require you to open your throat fully, and in a deep breath - the ones that require a surrendering - you’ll find some of those answers you’ve been asking the universe.”

Life Universe Laughing Living Breathing Laugh Breath Surrendering

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“I'll show up to the end with so little: a body slackened by feats; a mind dwindled by pace. Let my photos be proof of life.”

Life Living Old Age Living In The Moment Photographs

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Lamont Walker Books

Creep

Book of She

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