[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.
AISHA HINDSI became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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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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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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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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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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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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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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