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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Adulthood is depressing. For me at least. I cried at the death of every illusion harder than I cried at the death of friends.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

African-Amendment.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m going to tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

— 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.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

And you say Paris is gay, but it has its downtimes. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard.

— Darnell Lamont Walker