Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nate Parker
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: November 18
Actor
Amateur Wrestler
Coach
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Professional Wrestler
Screenwriter
Norfolk
Virginia
Fear
Mother
Tells
Able
Shoes
Sometimes
Prepared
Believe
Step
Always
Steps
Wonder
Whether
More quotes by Nate Parker
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
I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.
Nate Parker
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for then but a message for now.
Nate Parker
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
In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.
Nate Parker
I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.
Nate Parker
When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.
Nate Parker
I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.
Nate Parker
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
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
I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!
Nate Parker
I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
Nate Parker
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
Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...
Nate Parker
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
Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.
Nate Parker
I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.
Nate Parker
And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker
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
I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.
Nate Parker
