An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
AISHA HINDSSo that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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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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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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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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[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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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Her 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.
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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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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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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