{"author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker","total_quotes":160,"quotes":[{"text":"I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["breaking-up","couples","love","lovers","real-self","relationships"],"id":4656,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["breaking-up","chemistry","falling-in-love","love","relationships","timing"],"id":5138,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["death","death-and-love","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","dying"],"id":6314,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["falling-in-love","love"],"id":11028,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["children","lessons"],"id":11704,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["african-americans","black-people","equality","government","power","race-relations","racism","systematic-racism"],"id":13107,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["america","discourse","discussion","meetings","race-relations","racism"],"id":15114,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["crying","music"],"id":16558,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["african-americans","anti-blackness","black-people","hate","hatred","hitler","holocaust","nazi","race","race-relations","racism"],"id":25580,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["artists","confessions"],"id":30826,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":160,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}