I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
AISHA HINDSHarriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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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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[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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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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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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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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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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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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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[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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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