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If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.

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

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  1. I’m silent when there is a war inside me. There’s a need to keep the people outside intact. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  2. The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  3. Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  4. But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  5. 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
  6. Didn’t know where I was going. Didn’t care where I ended up. I knew I’d be okay though. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  7. I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  8. 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
  9. Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  10. Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you’ve convinced yourself you don’t dream at all. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  11. The heart will stretch a short love into long memories. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  12. It’s crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I’ve done nothing. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  13. Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn’t it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  14. 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
  15. I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  16. Can’t be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  17. Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  18. Communities that can’t read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  19. I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I’m living for that. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  20. 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
  21. i’ve never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  22. 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
  23. With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  24. If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  25. Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  26. 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
  27. Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  28. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  29. They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant ‘American. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  30. You don’t get to turn someone’s sanctuary into an unsafe space. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  31. It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  32. 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
  33. Black people are either threats or entertainment. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  34. You can’t forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society. – 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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