Words matter. These are the best Nate Parker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
I’m a big Hall and Oates fan.
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing ‘Kumbaya’. We don’t really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for ‘then’ but a message for ‘now.’
I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, ‘Hello, my name is Nate.’ But at the same time, I’ve never hidden from it.
I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ – not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
I’m a perfectionist to a fault.
Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
You don’t choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there’s an energy that happens.
I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I’m really involved in the community.
The crazy thing is a lot of people – a lot of men, if I’m just speaking for myself – don’t really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’ then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
