When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun. Nate Parker More Quotes by Nate Parker More Quotes From Nate Parker Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all. Nate Parker white-privilege air thinking It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil. Nate Parker healing native-american people My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me. Nate Parker shoes mother believe If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels. Nate Parker hurt self thinking I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me. Nate Parker soapbox long people I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice. Nate Parker injustice justice needs When an artist becomes complacent, he dies. Nate Parker complacent dies artist We have such a knee-jerk reaction to our young people, not recognizing our young people carry the torch. We condemn them for their hats worn a certain way or their hoodie worn a certain way, or their pants sagging a certain way, but the reality is, we need to meet them where they stand. We need to arm them with what they need to fight, and then we need to get the hell out the way and let them lead. That is something that is not happening in our communities. Nate Parker fighting reality people I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want. Nate Parker revolution want thinking And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it. Nate Parker work-harder hard-work mean 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. Nate Parker hate self people When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them. Nate Parker attitude kids thinking We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change. Nate Parker educational responsibility people I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen. Nate Parker get-better perfect men Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody. Nate Parker leader men needs I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now." Nate Parker messages I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open. Nate Parker leader want two I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand. Nate Parker acting hands thinking When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win. Nate Parker girl dog cheating A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them." Nate Parker issues people ideas
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