Latest Nate Parker Quotes from Interviews

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• Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side.

  Nate Parker

  Country, Successful, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  Justice, Needs, Injustice

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.

  Nate Parker

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• For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

  Nate Parker

  Hurt, Sorry, Males

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• Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Men, Leader, Needs

  Source: www.ebony.com

• If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Impact, Race

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Two, Leader, Want

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Men, Perfect, Get Better

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

  Nate Parker

  Men, Boys, Males

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.

  Nate Parker

  Race, Black, Study

  Source: www.ebony.com

• You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

  Nate Parker

  White, Benefits, Privilege

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

  Nate Parker

  Progress, Trying, Work In Progress

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.

  Nate Parker

  Years, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.ebony.com

• When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

  Nate Parker

  Straight Up, Gates

  Source: www.ebony.com

• In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.

  Nate Parker

  Men, Interaction, Preparing

  Source: www.ebony.com

• When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.

  Nate Parker

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

  Nate Parker

  Males, Culture, Roles

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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.

  Nate Parker

  Crazy, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.

  Nate Parker

  Kids, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Stories, Normal

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

  Nate Parker

  Men, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Thinking, Air, White Privilege

  Source: www.ebony.com