Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
AISHA HINDSI think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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