Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
AISHA HINDSThat is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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I almost believe that Harriet Tubman asked God for a leave like, “I’m gonna need to go back down there and take care of some things. They’re in trouble.”
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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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The second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
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Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.
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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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