I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
AISHA HINDSI 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.”
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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.
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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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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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[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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 felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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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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