Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
AISHA HINDSHer spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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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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