Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it is sometimes immortality.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Going to pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Home is where you were conditioned.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I am a descendant of a bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. I knew it was real then.

— Darnell Lamont Walker