So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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.
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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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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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[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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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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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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.
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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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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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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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