The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
AISHA HINDSHarriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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.
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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
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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 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 did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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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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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.
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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