Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
AISHA HINDS[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
-
-
I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
AISHA HINDS -
Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
AISHA HINDS -
Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
AISHA HINDS -
[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
AISHA HINDS -
Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
AISHA HINDS -
But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
AISHA HINDS -
Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”
AISHA HINDS -
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.”
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
AISHA HINDS