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Quotes By Nate Parker

I’m a big Hall and Oates fan.

Nate Parker
Fan Hall

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 Team

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
GovernmentRights Silence

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 Ourselves

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Nate Parker
LeadershipLifeStrive

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

Nate Parker
GreatActing Chemistry

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for ‘then’ but a message for ‘now.’

Nate Parker
MoviesMessage Prefer

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 Felt Worst

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

Nate Parker
Dream

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
ChangeJustice Use

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
Next Purpose Small

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
WorkAnyone Mean
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