Black people are either threats or entertainment.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.

— 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.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Drugs are the gateway drug

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Even the US's are Them's.

— Darnell Lamont Walker