The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
AISHA HINDSThat 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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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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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.”
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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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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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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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 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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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