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Nate Parker Biography

Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and musical performer who has appeared in Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon, and Pride. Parker's directorial debut feature film, The Birth of a Nation, in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for $17.5 million, breaking the record for the most paid for a Sundance Film Festival production, surpassing Little Miss Sunshine, which had been acquired by Searchlight for $10 million ten years earlier.

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This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

Couch, Human, Psychosis, Sometimes, Who We Are

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.

Gotta, Home, Night, Thinking, Walk

When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.

Fun, Normal, Threesome

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.

Corporate, Educational, People, Reduce, Responsibility, Systemically

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.

Crazy, Definitions, Kids, Mean, Men, Thing

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.

Believe, Director, Done, Movies, Time, Vision

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

Call, People, Racism, Say, Thinking

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

Black, Hate, Inferior, Make, People, Self

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Dark, Lips, Nose, Noses, Skins

I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers.

Actors, Blue, Clarity, Computers, Saying

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.

Masculinity, Overcome, Overcoming, Stronger, Thinking

I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.

Leader, Open, Two, Want, Willing

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

Know, Swim, Two, Week, Weeks

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.

Injustice, Justice, Needs, Place

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.

Ideas, Kid, Kids, Life, Trying

At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

Kissing, Say Anything, Stopping, Say, Simply

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.

Kids, Definitions, Remember, Having, Definition

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

Hurt, Male, Males, Privilege, Sorry

I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.

Sex, Should Have, Years, Definitions, Known

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.

Motivation, Seen, Self Esteem, Take, Thinking, Times

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