Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
AISHA HINDSRosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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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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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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She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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[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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