But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
AISHA HINDSYou 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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
-
-
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.
AISHA HINDS -
One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
AISHA HINDS -
So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
AISHA HINDS -
I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
AISHA HINDS -
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.
AISHA HINDS -
[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
AISHA HINDS -
Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
AISHA HINDS -
The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
AISHA HINDS -
Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
AISHA HINDS -
There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
AISHA HINDS -
Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”
AISHA HINDS -
I almost believe that Harriet Tubman asked God for a leave like, “I’m gonna need to go back down there and take care of some things. They’re in trouble.”
AISHA HINDS -
[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
AISHA HINDS -
Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
AISHA HINDS -
[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.
AISHA HINDS -
It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
AISHA HINDS