“Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“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.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“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.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues”
Darnell Lamont Walker“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.”
Darnell Lamont Walker“Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.”
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