Nate Parker

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out…

— Nate Parker

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can…

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long.…

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took…

— Nate Parker

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe…

— Nate Parker

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

— Nate Parker

I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

— Nate Parker

Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on…

— Nate Parker

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't…

— Nate Parker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a…

— Nate Parker

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This…

— 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

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I…

— Nate Parker

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

— 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

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

— 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…

— Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the…

— Nate Parker

We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our…

— Nate Parker

How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships…

— Nate Parker