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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.
- Nate Parker
#Dark
#Nose
#Skin
#Worst
#Young
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
- Nate Parker
#Make
#Message
#Movies
#Now
#Only
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.
- Nate Parker
#Government
#Rights
#Silence
#Singing
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.
- Nate Parker
#Believe
#Change
#Feel
#Justice
#King
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
- Nate Parker
#Door
#Me
#Next
#Purpose
#Serve
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
- Nate Parker
#Big
#Fan
#Hall
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
- Nate Parker
#American Dream
#American
#Opportunity
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.
- Nate Parker
#Community
#High School
#Myself
#School
I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.
- Nate Parker
#Black
#Hat
#People
#Ship
#Stand Up
I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
- Nate Parker
#Fault
#Perfectionist
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
- Nate Parker
#Black
#Hate
#People
#Self
#Strive
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.
- Nate Parker
#Face
#Healing
#Moving Forward
#Past
#Way
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
- Nate Parker
#Just
#Mean
#Niche
#Say
#Work
#Your
I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
- Nate Parker
#About
#America
#Better
#Patriotism
#See
Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
- Nate Parker
#Excel
#Leadership
#Life
#My Life
#Strive
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