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You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

You don’t get to turn someone’s sanctuary into an unsafe space.
– Darnell Lamont Walker

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  1. I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine – Darnell Lamont Walker
  2. I’m silent when there is a war inside me. There’s a need to keep the people outside intact. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  3. Can’t be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  4. I have no clue if it’s true and I don’t much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  5. The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  6. Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  7. If you’re calling for peace, I am not home. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  8. Communities that can’t read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  9. I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I’m living for that. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  10. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  11. One day you will be the only one in the room not living. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  12. I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I’ve become a whore for my craft. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  13. i’ve never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  14. 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
  15. The world is full of ‘friends’ of suicide victims thinking ‘if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  16. With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  17. If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  18. Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  19. Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  20. The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they’re most afraid of. deal with it. grow. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  21. Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  22. The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  23. She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  24. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  25. It’s okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness – Darnell Lamont Walker
  26. America’s put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  27. They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant ‘American. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  28. But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  29. If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  30. I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  31. Black bodies have become ornamental, haven’t they? – Darnell Lamont Walker
  32. Black people are either threats or entertainment. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  33. You can’t forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  34. Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  35. My ideas ???? like rabbits. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  36. An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  37. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you’re trying to escape. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  38. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company’s mission – Darnell Lamont Walker
  39. Gonna 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
  40. Not everything set on fire will rise. – Darnell Lamont Walker

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