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Darnell Lamont Walker

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Born

in Charlottesville, The United States

February 17, 1982

Website

http://www.thecleverbastard.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Cecil Brown, Chinua Achebe, George Dawe ...more

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June 2012

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Darnell Lamont Walker is a death doula and writer, a bridge guiding individuals and communities through grief, toward healing, meaning, and whatever joy remains. An Emmy-nominated children’s television writer (Work It Out Wombats!, Karma’s World, Blue’s Clues & You), he believes storytelling—whether for children or those facing life’s hardest transitions—is a path to connection, safety, and belonging. His upcoming book, Never Can Say Goodbye (Harper One), explores his experiences as a death doula, offering insight into loss, love, and the ways we find our way forward. Through words and witness, he helps others honor their stories, navigate the in-between, and embrace what comes next.

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I Don’t Want to See Your Home Office. Show Me the Room Where Joy Lives

There’s something special about the way people invite me into their spaces. Over the years, since entering adulthood, friends, cousins, strangers, hookups, and lovers – each has welcomed me into their houses, condos, apartments, even the occasional cabin, with this open warmth that holds a tad bit of wonder. And I get it; there’s pride there, real, unrestrained joy in showing off their worlds. Som

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	Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creep by Darnell Lamont Walker (Goodreads Author), Janna M Hall (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book of She by Darnell Lamont Walker (Goodreads Author), Janna M Hall (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Avenue of Trees it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Very Short Notes I Wrote To You While I Was High On Cocaine it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kiss of Life by J.R. Dewesse, Maria Moore (Editor), Darnell Lamont Walker (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Most Beautiful Thing in the World by Darnell Lamont Walker (Goodreads Author), Justin Leveque (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sky Full of Elephants

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Darnell Lamont Walker shared a quote “That’s not how I remember it” is one of the most intimate sentences we can offer each other because it doesn’t argue so much as it exposes, quietly, almost awkwardly, the fact that memory is not a record but a private weather system, shaped by fear, love, shame, desire, by what we needed in order to survive the moment being recalled, and to say it is to step forward without armor and admit that your version of events lives inside your body, not in facts, that it arrives with its own smells and silences and omissions, that it may be inconvenient or unflattering or unbearably tender, and that you are willing to risk the loneliness of being misunderstood for the chance of being seen, because beneath the sentence is a deeper request: don’t correct me yet, don’t reduce this to accuracy, just sit with the knowledge that I was there too, that I felt something you did not, or felt it differently, and that the distance between our memories is not a failure of love but one of its most honest co ...more Darnell Lamont Walker
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“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep

tags: relationships, walls

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“Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: breaking-up, chemistry, falling-in-love, love, relationships, timing

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“Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”
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tags: broken, hurt, pain

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“If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.”
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tags: activist

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“I’m learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.”
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tags: education

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“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’d meet there again.”
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tags: death, family, grandmother, sorrow

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“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”
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tags: death-funerals, initiation

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“We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.”
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