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When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

When you don’t make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
– Darnell Lamont Walker

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  1. Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you’ve convinced yourself you don’t dream at all. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  2. At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. – SA Tawks
  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. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  10. One day you will be the only one in the room not living. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  11. i’ve never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. What their scorned, over-????ed mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  16. If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  17. Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  18. 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
  19. Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  20. The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  21. 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
  22. She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  23. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  24. 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
  25. America’s put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  26. They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant ‘American. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  27. You don’t get to turn someone’s sanctuary into an unsafe space. – 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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