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.
AISHA HINDSUnderstanding 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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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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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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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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 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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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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Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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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 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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