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.
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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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 want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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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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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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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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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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Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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[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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[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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