Nate Parker Quotes

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Nate Parker

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 18, 1979

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

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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

I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.

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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

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I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

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I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

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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.

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