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Nate Parker Quotes

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1979

Topics

Silence Government Singing Sugar

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

My Own Carry Own Going Weight Cross

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Change Facts Ignore Want Fit Easier

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

Me Tears Waves Know Run Will

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

Best Think Now Kind Way Band

As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.

Me Growing Up Go Growing Young Want

You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.

Racism Fun Have Fun Choices Help

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Success People Mind Hands Ladder

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

People Celebrate Think Opinions Try

For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.

Life Great Training People Thoughts

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

Martin Scorsese

People Moving Color You Understand

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

Chris Kirkpatrick

School High School Short Legs High

I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.

Time Sexy Trying Look Single Going

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