Darnell Lamont Walker

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

There__ a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you__e terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

I wish I didn__ need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.

I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional. When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.

I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.