Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Lamont Walker

"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."
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"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
"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."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"Even the Us's are Them's."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"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
"When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"Black people are either threats or entertainment."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?"
Darnell Lamont Walker
"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"African-Amendment."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything."
Darnell Lamont Walker
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