S. N. Parker Quotes

Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

I guess the only thing I'd say is it ['There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] shouldn't be read as "Beyoncé is not beautiful."

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.

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.

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

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

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

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

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.

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.

When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

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

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.

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.