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“I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.”

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Nate Parker is an American actor born on November 18, 1979. He gained widespread acclaim for his performance in the film 'The Birth of a Nation,' which earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. more

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Mean Kids Crazy Effects Protect Married Definitions Masculinity Be A Man Hyper Crazy Things

Author:Nate Parker

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

Men Interaction Preparing Actuality

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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.”

Thinking Different Home Night Walks Worry Different Things

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“When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.”

Gates Straight Up

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“Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.”

Ifs Knows Years Different Imagine Perspective Years Ago Consent Being A Woman Different Perspective

Author:Nate Parker

“You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.”

Knows White Benefits Males Privilege Shirts White Supremacy Pointing Stains Supremacy Male Privilege

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“I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.”

Trying Progress Work In Progress

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“I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.”

Firsts Artist Performances

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“I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.”

Men I Can Helping Young Culture Boys Males Young Man Engaged Hyper

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“Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.”

I Can Problem Black Race Study Praying Gender

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