Darnell Lamont Walker

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren__ doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they__e contagious. They are, I believe.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

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__ meet there again.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don__ want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

Even the Us's are Them's.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.

They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

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

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.

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

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?