10 Quotes by Nate Parker about thinking


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    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.

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    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.

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    All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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