The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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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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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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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[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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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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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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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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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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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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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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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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