I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
AISHA HINDSI felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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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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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.
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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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 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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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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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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