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 HINDSI 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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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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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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 became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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 think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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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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