I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I’m really involved in the community. Nate Parker Read Quote
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. Nate Parker Read Quote
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in. Nate Parker Read Quote
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. Nate Parker Read Quote
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. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority. Nate Parker Read Quote
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. Nate Parker Read Quote
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it. Nate Parker Read Quote
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 Read Quote
